Dead person speaks from grave — Mythoi

Motif

Dead person speaks from grave.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E417

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , The Winter's Tale Act 3
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , The Winter's Tale Act 4

Filed across the traditions

Madagascar Sibree FLJ I 202ff., Larrouy RTP IV 305.

Within the index

Filed under The unquiet grave. (Cf. D2151.1.2.3.) Dead unable to rest in peace. Aside from the references given in the numbers immediately following, see E200–E399 passim.

Filed beside it

Ground trembles or rumbles when ghost rises from grave Ghost shakes off earth when he rises from grave Dead cannot rest because of sin Person under religious ban cannot rest in grave Murdered person cannot rest in grave. (C.f. all references to E231, E334, E337.1.1, E337.3.) Drowned person cannot rest in peace. (Cf. E334.4.) Dead cannot rest until certain work is finished Man who removes landmarks cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E345.1.) Other restless dead

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Revenant as priest or parson. (Cf. E338.5, E417.)

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