Dead persons play games

Motif

Dead persons play games.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , 89

Filed across the traditions

U.S. Baughman
Eskimo (Labrador) Hawkes GSCan XIV 153.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous actions of revenants.

3 finer motifs beneath it

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

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

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