μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Revenants in conflict. · view the constellation · filed as E463

Filed across the traditions
  • Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 114 No. 7
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3543.
Within the index

Filed under Revenants in conflict.

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