H12A. A dead wife stalks her husband. (.24.) .38.50.

The wife dies, the husband comes for her, or he kills her for treason; she turns into a monster, stalks him.

(Wed. Malaysia-Indonesia. Simalur [husband to wife: if you die, I will follow you; wife died during childbirth with her baby; husband stayed on the grave; an old man appeared, told him to close his eyes, his wife returned; but people accepted they began to drive them for demons; crossing the river across the bridge, they fell and drowned; turned into demons who kill women in labor]: Koehler 1964:29-30).

Japan. Kojiki 1994, ch. 8 [Izanagi and Izanami get married and have children; giving birth to the fire god, I-mi burns his womb, dies; I-gi comes to the Country for her Korney (Land of Yellow Waters, Land of Darkness); I-mi says she has already eaten local food; tells me not to look at it until she goes to consult local deities; I-gi Tires of waiting, enters her chambers; sees worms and eight Thunders in her body; I-gi runs, I-mi chases furies (Ugly Women of the Underworld); I-gi throws a headband, then a comb; they turn into wild grapes, into bamboo shoots; the furies stop picking them up and eating them; I-gi sends Thunder and demons to an underland; I-gi drives them away by throwing a peach at them; I-mi chases them herself; I-gi blocks the passage to the underland with a rock; I-mi and I-gi divorce; I-mi promises kill a thousand people a day on earth; I-gi promises 1,500 newborns a day]: 47-49; Nihon Shoki 1997, scroll 1 [like in Kojiki; I-gi urinates, creating a river, reaches the ground while the furies are crossing it]: 127-128.

The Great Southwest. Navajo [the husband waits four days at his wife's grave; goes to get her spirit at night; during the day he disappears into a crevice; in the world of the dead, they dance, call the living spirit; contrary to warning, he makes a fire during the day, sees skeletons lying around; runs, his wife chases him; animals hold a ceremony, the husband should not look at his wife while she is; he violates the ban, sees the skeleton]: Hill in Gayton 1935a: 271; Hopi: Malotki, Gary 2001, No. 6 [Oraibi beauty rejects marriages; Kachina Pongoktsina lives with her grandmother, marries her; Grandma P. has many Kachin relatives, they send rain, they give game; the young move to live with his wife's parents; they have two sons; a man from Kiisiwu kidnaps a woman, takes her away on a flying shield; P. and his sons (they are still young, but accompany him) go looking wife; an old woman teaches her what to do; when P. finds his wife, returns with her, sends her children forward, he puts her to sleep after copulation, kills her with a knife, runs away; she pursues him; in a kiva in the east of him they make him small, hide it under a dice; the deceased is about to find him, he runs to a kivu in the west, becomes one of the dancers; in another kiva in the West, the ritual participant hides him in his flute; the fourth kive P. hides in a sunflower flower growing in the middle of the pond; the dead notices its reflection, rushes after it, drowns; P. observes rituals for several days; the wife revives normal alive a woman; he is warned not to look back until he and his next wife reach a certain milestone; P. looks around, his wife rushes to run; his wife and P. turn into two stars, one forever chases another]: 30-54; Voth 1905, No. 14 [girl rejects suitors; marries kachina; gives birth to twins; goes to another kachin, leaving children; husband and children follow her footsteps; kills by piercing her throat with a stick; husband with children returns to his mother; wife's skeleton pursues her husband; women hide him under pottery clay; in the other kiva he is given a tambourine, disguised as one of the dancers; in the third a woman puts the fugitive on her lap, hides it under the tray she makes; the fourth person hides in a sunflower flower that grows in a spring; the skeleton sees her husband's reflection, jumps into the water after him, disappears; later returns at the festival as his fiancée; both turn into stars, one chases the other forever]: 65-70; Teva (San Juan): Erdoes, Ortiz 1984:173-175 [The Deer Hunter marries the Corn Maiden, the wife dies; for four days her spirit must wander near the village; the widower searches for the dead, begs her to return; day by day she turns more and more into a corpse, pursues her husband; Someone enters the village, demands his spouses, says that they have broken the law and angered the spirits; placing them in arrows, sends them both to heaven; in the western sky, the Corn Maiden (weak star) is forever pursues the Deer Hunter (bright star)], 295-297 [Ka-ping's young wife Willow Flower dies; a few months later he notices a light in the distance; at night he comes to a lonely house with his wife in it; she drives him away, then agrees to return alive if K. manages to stay with her until dawn; at night K. wakes up from the smell of corpse; runs away, his wife pursues him; by the river he asks the old man for help; he puts him in an arrow, launches him into the sky; the same with the pursuer; now two stars are visible in the west sky, one chasing the other]; Parsons 1939 [(plot summary); spouses - Morning Star and Evening Star Star]: 205.