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Motif

Body of living corpse.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Appearance of revenant. · view the constellation · filed as E422.1

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Filed under The living corpse. Revenant is not a specter but has the attributes of a living person. He wanders about till his "second death", complete disintegration in the grave. (Cf. E261.1.3, E268, E461.)

11 finer motifs beneath it
Headless revenant Armless revenant Revenant with ice-cold hands Revenant with cold lips Revenant with bad breath Revenant with chicken feet 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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Hanged man thirsty; demands water to drink Color of revenant. (Cf. F527.) Size of revenant Dress of revenant

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