The dead sing. (Cf. E371.3.)

Motif

The dead sing. (Cf. E371.3.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E546

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter I I. The King of the Wood
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 57 57.— THE GOLDEN BIED.
North American Indigenous Navaho Legends , Legend 3

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
New York Jones JAFL LVII 244.
general *Type 4031
general *Fb "hvid" I 700b

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous actions of revenants.

Filed beside it

Revenants eat. (Cf. E499.1.) 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 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

Poet sings day after his death. (Cf. E342, E546.) Ghost sings. (Cf. E546.)

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