μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Revenant in animal form.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "mort"
  • New York Jones 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Ghost transformed into animal. (Cf. D100, E423.)

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