Motif
Returning dead beloved affected by mourner’s emotion
returning_dead_beloved_affected_by_mourner_s_emotion
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
norse
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER XVI: VALI / CHAPTER XVII: THE NORNS / CHAPTER XVIII: THE VALKYRS / CHAPTER XIX: HEL; lines 6802-6953 confidence: high
The dead may revisit relatives; in the ballad, Aager tells Else that her happiness fills his grave with roses and her grief fills it with black blood.
Aager’s postmortem condition changes according to Else’s joy or grief, and the passage frames this as an example of dead spirits revisiting relatives.
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