Dead man praises God

Motif

Dead man praises God.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E576

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 13
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 28
Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter VI: An Egyptian Prototype of the Main Features of the Poemandres' Cosmogony

Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous actions of revenants.

1 finer motif beneath it

Dead intercedes before God for mortal

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 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

The dead foretell the future. (Cf. E363.3, E576.)

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