Land of dead in lower world

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

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Scholars’ trail — 16references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
GreekFox 146, Grote I 62
FinnishHolmberg Finno-Ugric 72
Jewish*Neuman, Gaster Thespis 183, 187f.
SiberianHolmberg Siberian 485
Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 199f.
ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 200f.
TongaGifford 183
MelanesiaWheeler 33, 47
PapuaKer 81
HawaiiBeckwith 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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