Dead make music on their ribs

Motif

Dead make music on their ribs.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E548

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IrishCurtin Myths and Folklore of Ireland 25
IndiaThompson-Balys
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 244.

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 sing. (Cf. E371.3.)The dead wail (Cf. E402ff.)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

Invisible ghost plays musical instrument. (Cf. E548.)

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