Bridge to land of dead

Motif

Bridge to land of dead.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Abode of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E481.2.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune XXXIV

Scholars’ trail — 12references

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
FinnishHolmberg Finno-Ugric 74
India*Thompson-Balys
PersianCarnoy 344
N. Am. IndianBrinton Myths of the New World (New York, 1868) 248, Skinner PaAM XIII 86.
general Type 471
general *Fb "bro" IV 62b
general Wimberly 110ff.
general Ward Catalogue of Romances II 399, 420, 607, Herbert ibid. III 279
general Moe Samlede Skrifter III 212, 226ff.
general Frazer Immortality III 150
general Kachin: Scott Indo-Chinese 265

Within the index

Filed under Land of dead across water.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Frightening thing at bridge to land of dead Unstable bridge to land of dead

Filed beside it

Island of the dead Boat to land of dead

Carried in tale types

The Bridge to the Otherworld · ATU 4712 recorded variants

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