μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Land of dead in lower world.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Abode of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E481.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Greek Fox 146, Grote I 62
  • Finnish Holmberg Finno-Ugric 72
  • Jewish *Neuman, Gaster Thespis 183, 187f.
  • Siberian Holmberg Siberian 485
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 199f.
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 200f.
  • Tonga Gifford 183
  • Melanesia Wheeler 33, 47
  • Papua Ker 81
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 146, 155
  • N. Am. Indian *Alexander N. Am. 274 n. 10
  • general *Krappe Etude 45ff.
  • general **M. Landau Hölle und Fegefeuer in Volksglauben, Dichtung, und Kirchenlehre (Heidelberg, 1909)
  • general Krappe Revue Celtique XLIX (1932) 96–102
  • general S. Am. Indian (Metaco): Métraux MAFLS XL 24.
Within the index

Filed under Land of the dead.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Old woman ruler of dead in lower world. (Cf. A481.9.) Houses in lower world of dead. (Cf. F163, F220.)
Filed beside it
Spain as land of the dead. (Cf. F130.2.) Quarrel of dead and living causes removal of dead to own land Land of dead across water Abode of dead in mountain Beautiful land of dead. (Rosengarten) Ghost lives midway between heaven and earth Land of dead in one of the cardinal directions Icy inferno. (Cf. E481.6.1.) Land of dead in sky King of world of dead. (Cf. E481.1.1.)

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