Revenants eat. (Cf. E499.1.)

Motif

Revenants eat. (Cf. E499.1.)

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

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Fb "lig" II 412b, "spøgelse" III 518ab.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous actions of revenants.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Food placed out for returning souls of dead Ghost eats living human beings Dead come forth and eat grave-offerings Revenants drink Dead beg food from living

Filed beside it

Dead man touches living Dead drag boat to strand Ghost leaves evidence of his appearance. (Cf. E322.3.3.1, E542. 1ff.)The dead speak The dead sing. (Cf. E371.3.)The dead wail (Cf. E402ff.)Dead make music on their ribs Dead man sobs. (Cf. E402.1.1.)Ghost in form of bear sneezes. (Cf. E423.2.1.)Ghost becomes log during day Ghost plays musical instrument Dead man smokes pipe Ghost drinks Dead man writes Ghosts forced to labor Dead person spins

Travels with

Gay banquet of the dead. (Cf. E541.)

wander