Revenant as bird

Motif

Revenant as bird.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Appearance of revenant. · view the constellation · filed as E423.3

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

IrishCross, Beal XXI 332, O'Suilleabhain 99
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 243.
general Tobler 34
general Krappe Balor 96–97
general England, U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Revenant in animal form.

11 finer motifs beneath it

Revenant as dove Revenant as swan Revenant as partridge Revenant as raven Revenant as owl Revenant as hen. Sometimes with chickens Revenant as goose Revenant as crow Revenant as sea-gull Revenant as duck Revenant as bean-goose

Filed beside it

Revenant as domestic animal Revenant as wild animal Revenant as frog Revenant as snake (serpent)Revenant as centaur Revenant as fly Revenant as spider Revenant as eel

Travels with

Ghost of bird. (Cf. E423.3.)

wander