μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Revenant rewards its conqueror.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Revenants in conflict. · view the constellation · filed as E465

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish Curtin Myths and Folklore of Ireland (Boston, 1889) 127
  • general Egypt (ancient): Petrie II 87.
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 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.) Revenants fight each other

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