Dead persons play cards

Motif

Dead persons play cards.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E577.2

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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.

U.S.Baughman.
general *Type 326
general Fb "spøgelse" III 520a

Within the index

Filed under Dead persons play games.

1 finer motif beneath it

Playing cards with a dead man (ghost)

Filed beside it

Dead persons play ball. (Cf. E494.)Dead persons bowl

Carried in tale types

The Youth Who Wanted to Learn What Fear Is · ATU 3261 recorded variant

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