μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg.
  • general *Krappe Balor 145ff.
  • general Fb "spøgelse" III 520b
Within the index

Filed under Revenants in conflict.

1 finer motif beneath it
Two dead men struggle over living man
Filed beside it
Fight of revenant with living person. (Cf. E261.1.3.)Revenant overawed by living personLiving man in dead man's shroud. Refuses to let corpse return to grave before he tells how to resuscitate woman living man has killedRevenant tricked or jeered into a bottle, corked up and put in safe place. (Cf. D2177.1.)Revenant rewards its conqueror

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