Revenant with chicken feet

Motif

Revenant with chicken feet.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Appearance of revenant. · view the constellation · filed as E422.1.6

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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.

general Gaster Germania XXV (1880) 290ff.

Within the index

Filed under Body of living corpse.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost with feet twisted backward Revenant with thin legs

Filed beside it

Headless revenant Armless revenant Revenant with ice-cold hands Revenant with cold lips Revenant with bad breath Revenant with chip of resin between teeth Revenant with peculiar nails Living corpse returns every night, shows gradual wasting away of body Dismembered corpse Revenant as part of body

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