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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

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“Next morning the King came and said, "Now thou mast have learnt what shuddering is ? " " No," he answered ; " what can it be ? My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder." " I'hen," said the King, " thou hast delivered the castle, and shalt marry my daughter." " That is all very well," said he, " but still I do not know what it is to shudder !”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 4 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 313 No. 92
  • GermanGrimm No. 4 → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 4
  • New YorkJones JAFL LVII 243
  • North CarolinaBrown 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 dogFeatures of ghostly dog
Filed beside it
Revenant as catRevenant as horse. (Cf. F401.3.1.)Revenant as assRevenant as swineRevenant as lambRevenant as ramRevenant as cowRevenant as goat
Travels with
Ghosts as dogs with glowing tongues and eyes. (Cf. E423.1.1, E522.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Speaking catMagic bedResuscitation by warming dead manRevenant as old manFear test: going into the church at night and ringing the bellHero plays skittles with demonsOgre's (dwarf's) beard caught fastDressmaker (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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