Food placed out for returning souls of dead

Motif

Food placed out for returning souls of dead.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E541.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

GermanicCelander Nordisk Jul I 203ff., Wuttke Volksaberglaube 471, Archiv f. Religionsgeschichte XIX (1918) 134
LappishRheen Svenska Landsmålen XVII (1898) 27
SlavicMáchal 230
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Revenants eat. (Cf. E499.1.)

Filed beside it

Ghost eats living human beings Dead come forth and eat grave-offerings Revenants drink Dead beg food from living

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