Men must enter spirit world armed

Motif

Men must enter spirit world armed.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Abode of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E480.3

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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.

S. Am. Indian (Brazil)Oberg 110.

Within the index

Filed under Abode of the dead.

Filed beside it

Abode of animal souls. (Cf. E730.1.)Three worlds of dead Land of the dead Land of shades. Everything is done by unseen people Land of skulls Glowing beds of dead. Youth in land of dead puts staff into one of the beds. The iron glows and the wood burns Abode of the dead – miscellaneous

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