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Motif

Appearance of wraith as calamity omen.

The dead. · The soul. · Soul leaves or enters the body. · view the constellation · filed as E723.8

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Filed under Wraiths of persons separate from body.

1 finer motif beneath it
Wraith appears before mine disaster
Filed beside it
Person sees his own wraith Seeing one's wraith a sign that person is to die shortly. (Cf. F405.4.) Wraith takes place of person unable to do duty at the necessary time Wraith does what person wishes to do but is unable to do in the flesh Wraith of sweetheart stays in room where lover has died. It disappears only after her death at far distant point twenty years after death of lover Appearance of his wraith as announcement of person's death. (Cf. E723.2.) Actions of wraith

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