μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • New HebridesCodrington 379
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 454, Rasmussen III 84
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 280.
  • general Liebrecht 49
  • general Aly Volksmärchen bei Herodot (Göttingen, 1921) 153
  • general H. Schreuer Zs. d. vgl. Rechtswissenschaft XXXIII (1916) 350 n.
  • general Corsican: Ortoli 332
  • general N. Am. Indian (Tlingit): Swanton BBAE XXXIX 249 No. 86, (Teton): Dorsey JAFL I 68, (Blackfoot): Wissler and Duvall PaAM II 154 No. 10 (head of murdered woman continues to live with husband), Grinnell Blackfoot Lodge Tales (New York, 1923) 70, (Hopi): Voth FM VIII 33, (Zuñi): Cushing 48 No. 2, (Thompson River): Teit JE VIII 281 No. 46, (Quileute): Farrand-Mayer JAFL XXXII 268 No. 12, (Klickitat): Alexander N. Am. 147
Within the index

Filed under Intimate relations of dead and living.

1 finer motif beneath it
Offspring of living and dead person. (Cf. E322.1, T540.)
Filed beside it
Ghost kisses living personRevenant sleeps in same bed with living but without contactBody in coffin moves so as to make room for his recently deceased friend
Travels with
Dead husband returns and lives with his wife. He is invisible to others. (Cf. F378.)Dead wife returns to live with her husband until his deathDead man visiting wife deceived by wife's absurd actions – "no more absurd than ghost visiting wife". (Cf. E321.2, E474.)

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