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

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • EstonianAarne FFC XXV 114 No. 7
  • LithuanianBalys 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 personRevenant tricked or jeered into a bottle, corked up and put in safe place. (Cf. D2177.1.)Revenant rewards its conquerorRevenants fight each other

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