J25B. A dead mother brings food to her baby.26.38.

A pregnant woman dies and is buried. Her spirit comes out of the grave to bring food to the baby. They find a child, he grows up.

China â€" Korea. Chinese (Zhejiang, Hubei, Guangdong, Fujian) [pregnant dies, gives birth in the grave; her spirit goes out to buy food for the child; pays with money from the dead, i.e. paper, which is burned on at the funeral; a thread is attached to it, a grave is found along the thread; a live baby is taken out of it]: Eberhard 1937, No. 115:174.

Japan. The Japanese (including northern Ryukyu) [every late evening a woman comes to the shop to buy sweets; the shopkeeper secretly follows her, comes to the cemetery, hears a child scream from the grave, digs up a grave, where a newborn born to a deceased pregnant woman sucks sweets; the baby grows up to be made by a famous Buddhist priest]: Ikeda 1971, No. 768B: 182.