μῦθοι Mythoi
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.)

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Estonian Loorits Grundzüge I 70–152
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3590, Ghosts
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 21 No. 199
  • Finnish Holmberg Finno-Ugric 3f.
  • Irish *Cross, Baughman
  • North Carolina Brown Collection I 682
  • New York Jones JAFL LVII 239f., 243
  • West Indies Flowers 430
  • Africa Werner 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
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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