μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Return of the dead to keep promise and tell of land of the dead. Two friends promise each other that the first to die will do so.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Other reasons for friendly return from the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E374.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3570.
Within the index

Filed under Dead returns to life and tells of journey to land of dead.

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