μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Offspring of living and dead person. (Cf. E322.1, T540.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Intimate relations of dead and living. · view the constellation · filed as E474.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
  • general *Fb "barn" IV 27a
  • general Tupper and Ogle Walter Map 98
Within the index

Filed under Cohabitation of living person and ghost. This usually involves sexual relations. (Cf. E321.2, E322.6, E339, E378.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Dead wife returns and bears children for husband Miraculous birth

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