Dead persons build fires

Motif

Dead persons build fires.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E578

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Russian Ralston 314
India Thompson-Balys.
general Type 326

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous actions of revenants.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Revenants want to warm themselves Ghosts warm themselves around fire

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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