Revenant in animal form

Motif

Revenant in animal form.

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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryThemis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, CHAPTER VILL

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.

BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "mort"
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 243.
general *Rosén Om Själavandringstro
general *Fb "spøgelse" III 521a
general Scotland, England, U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Appearance of revenant.

9 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Spectral ghosts 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.)Revenant as dwarf Revenant in human form Revenant as object

Travels with

Ghost transformed into animal. (Cf. D100, E423.)

wander