Dead sent back to life because his name is not in heavenly roll

Motif

Dead sent back to life because his name is not in heavenly roll.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E586.4

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CLIII
YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 7

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Dead returns soon after burial.

Filed beside it

Ghost returns before burial Dead returns on burial day Dead returns third day after burial Dead return second day after burial

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