μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Revenant as dog. (Cf. E421.3.6.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Appearance of revenant. · view the constellation · filed as E423.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 313 No. 92
  • German Grimm No. 4 → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 4
  • New York Jones JAFL LVII 243
  • North Carolina Brown Collection I 675, 684.
  • general *Rosén Om Själavandringstro 14
  • general *Fb "spøgelse" III 521a, "hund" I 675b, 676a, "præst" II 886a
  • general Tobler 49, 54, 68
  • general England, Scotland, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Revenant as domestic animal.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Color of ghostly dog Features of ghostly dog
Filed beside it
Revenant as cat Revenant as horse. (Cf. F401.3.1.) Revenant as ass Revenant as swine Revenant as lamb Revenant as ram Revenant as cow Revenant as goat
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Ghosts as dogs with glowing tongues and eyes. (Cf. E423.1.1, E522.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Speaking cat Magic bed Resuscitation by warming dead man Revenant as old man Fear test: going into the church at night and ringing the bell Hero plays skittles with demons Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast Dressmaker (milliner, etc.) Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.) Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Several men marry one woman

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