Dead returns third day after burial

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Dead returns third day after burial.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E586.2

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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.

N. Am. Indian (California)Gayton and Newman 101
Eskimo (Labrador)Hawkes GSCan XIV 153.
general Fb "sjæl" III 214b, "spøgelse" III 519b

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Ghost returns before burial Dead returns on burial day Dead return second day after burial Dead sent back to life because his name is not in heavenly roll

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