Dead come forth and eat grave-offerings

Motif

Dead come forth and eat grave-offerings.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E541.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Ancient Egyptian The Egyptian Book of the Dead , Chapter LXX

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Eskimo (Bering Strait) Nelson RBAE XVIII 488, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 154.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Food placed out for returning souls of dead Ghost eats living human beings Revenants drink Dead beg food from living

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “grave-offerings” · wander