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Motif

Revenant overawed by living person.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Revenants in conflict. · view the constellation · filed as E462

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Welsh Baughman.
  • general *Fb "student"
Within the index

Filed under Revenants in conflict.

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

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