Revenant sleeps in same bed with living but without contact

Motif

Revenant sleeps in same bed with living but without contact.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Intimate relations of dead and living. · view the constellation · filed as E472

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

U.S.Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Intimate relations of dead and living.

Filed beside it

Ghost kisses living person Cohabitation of living person and ghost. This usually involves sexual relations. (Cf. E321.2, E322.6, E339, E378.)Body in coffin moves so as to make room for his recently deceased friend

Travels with

Ghost carries lantern. (Cf. E371.10, E472, E594, E530.1, F491.1.)

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