Search
Motifs
- Deaths in a community come in threes. One death is shortly followed by two more. D1273.1.1.3
- Ghost light on farm indicates that occupants will move shortly. E530.1.4
- Seeing one's wraith a sign that person is to die shortly. (Cf. F405.4.) E723.2
- Fatal bread. Numskull refuses communion because his sister died shortly after eating the bread. J1824
- Marrying a stranger. The girl shortly to be married complains: "It was all very well for you, mother, to marry father, but I am to marry a complete stranger." J2463.2
- One friend dies shortly after the other. P310.6