Fight of revenant with living person. (Cf. E261.1.3.)

Motif

Fight of revenant with living person. (Cf. E261.1.3.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Revenants in conflict. · view the constellation · filed as E461

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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.

Irish myth*Cross
Icelandic*Boberg
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3542, Legends No. 882
N. Am. Indian (Teton)Dorsey AA o.s. II (1889) 150, (Passamaquoddy): Leland Algonquin Legends 349, (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 96 No. 7.
general Fb "spøgelse" III 520b

Within the index

Filed under Revenants in conflict.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Revenant challenged to combat Fight of living person with dead in the grave

Filed beside it

Revenant overawed by living person Living man in dead man's shroud. Refuses to let corpse return to grave before he tells how to resuscitate woman living man has killed Revenant tricked or jeered into a bottle, corked up and put in safe place. (Cf. D2177.1.)Revenant rewards its conqueror Revenants fight each other

Travels with

Hero attacked by revenant with half a head, carrying man with half a body. (Cf. E461, E422.1.1, F511.0.5.)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.)

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