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.)

Motif

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.)

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Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

EstonianLoorits Grundzüge I 70–152
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3590, Ghosts
Finnish-SwedishWessman 21 No. 199
FinnishHolmberg Finno-Ugric 3f.
Irish*Cross, Baughman
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 682
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 239f., 243
West IndiesFlowers 430
AfricaWerner African 180f., (Ekoi): Talbot 7 (dies a second time and becomes more dead).
general *Naumann Primitive Gemeinschaftskultur (Jena, 1921) 18ff.
general *Wimberly 229, 239, 256ff.
general *Klare Acta Philologica Scandinavica VIII 1–56
general *Gould Scandinavian Studies and Notes IX 167
general *Fb "spøgelse" III 519b

Within the index

Filed under Appearance of revenant.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Hanged man thirsty; demands water to drink Body of living corpse Color of revenant. (Cf. F527.)Size of revenant Dress of revenant

Filed beside it

Spectral ghosts Revenant in animal form Revenant as dwarf Revenant in human form Revenant as object

Travels with

Hero attacked by revenant with half a head, carrying man with half a body. (Cf. E461, E422.1.1, F511.0.5.)Ghost (revenant) kills by spewing water from his mouth on Hallowe'en. (Cf. F211.1.1.1.)Fight of revenant with living person. (Cf. E261.1.3.)

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