Land of dead across water

Motif

Land of dead across water.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Abode of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E481.2

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryPsychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido, Part II — CHAPTER VII

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IcelandicBoberg
SiberianHolmberg Siberian 486
general N. Am. Indian (Haida): Swanton JE V 34.

Within the index

Filed under Land of the dead.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Island of the dead Bridge to land of dead Boat to land of dead

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 in lower world 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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