Dead men dance.
The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Meetings of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E493
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- North American IndigenousMyths of the Cherokee, Historical Traditions — Myth 9292. ESCAPE OF THE SENECA BOYS
- Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter X
- Australian AboriginalAustralian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales, 39Bralgah the Dancing Bird
- North American IndigenousZuni Folk Tales, Tale 7
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 5656._SWEETHEAIIT ROLAND.
Scholars’ trail — 5references
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.
- SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 335 s. v. "Geister"
- N. Am. Indian (Pawnee)Grinnell 192, (Hupa): Goddard UCal I 239 No. 25, (Luiseño): DuBois UCal VIII 154, (Zuñi): Cushing 48 No. 2, (Cherokee): Mooney RBAE XIX 252 No. 5, 331 No. 78, (Kwakiutl): Boas and Hunt JE III 106
- AfricaWerner African 188f.
- general *Fb "spøgelse" III 520a, "danse" IV 93a, "sjæl" III 214b, "kirkegaard" II 128b
- general England, U.S.: *Baughman