Revenant rewards its conqueror

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Revenant rewards its conqueror.

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

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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.

IrishCurtin Myths and Folklore of Ireland (Boston, 1889) 127
general Egypt (ancient): Petrie II 87.

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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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