Abode of the dead

Motif

Abode of the dead.

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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

HawaiianLegends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes, XIXI.
GreekThe Iliad, Book 17
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section LIII
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 6, Section CV
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 6, Section CXVII

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
Jewish*Neuman.

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Abode of animal souls. (Cf. E730.1.)Three worlds of dead Men must enter spirit world armed 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

Travels with

Resuscitated man relates visions of beyond. (Cf. E480, V511.)

wander