Return from dead to teach living

Motif

Return from dead to teach living.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Other reasons for friendly return from the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E377

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

JewishNeuman.

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Filed under Other reasons for friendly return from the dead.

1 finer motif beneath it

Dead poet leaves grave mound to teach poem to herdsman: latter becomes great poet

Filed beside it

Return from the dead to stop weeping Ghost returns to aid living Dead returns to say farewell Return from dead to ask forgiveness Return from dead to give counsel. (Cf. V229.1.)Return from dead to preach repentance Pupil returns from dead to warn master of futility of his studies Return from dead to reveal hidden treasure. (Cf. E276, E291, E419.11.2.)Return from the dead to seek hidden treasure Ghosts bestow gifts on living Dead returns to life and tells of journey to land of dead Return from dead to prevent flight of thief Ghost returns to confess misdeed Friendly return from the dead – other motifs

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