Dead beg food from living

Motif

Dead beg food from living.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E541.5

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Africa (Bantu): Einstein 193.

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 Dead come forth and eat grave-offerings Revenants drink

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