Glowing beds of dead. Youth in land of dead puts staff into one of the beds. The iron glows and the wood burns

Motif

Glowing beds of dead. Youth in land of dead puts staff into one of the beds. The iron glows and the wood burns.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Abode of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E487

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IrishO'Suilleabhain 63, 102, Beal XXI 324, 333
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 309 No. 7.

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 shades. Everything is done by unseen people Land of skulls Abode of the dead – miscellaneous

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