Revenants fight each other — Mythoi

Motif

Revenants fight each other.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Revenants in conflict. · view the constellation · filed as E467

Filed across the traditions

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 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.) Revenant rewards its conqueror

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