Land of shades. Everything is done by unseen people — Mythoi

Motif

Land of shades. Everything is done by unseen people.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Abode of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E482

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 339 n. 221.
general Type 425
general Tegethoff 14
general *Siuts 218ff.
general Ward Catalogue of Romances II 425 (Voyage of St. Brandon)

Within the index

Filed under Abode of the dead.

Filed beside it

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

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