It looks like I was confusing some of the ghostly lover ballads back in 2000. She did not know he was dead: Child 272 Suffolk Miracle - ghost comes, takes lover home, doesn't say he is dead, open grave to show her, handkerchief around neck Child 77 Sweet William's Ghost - ghost comes for plighted troth, tells her he is dead, no room for her in grave Child 248 Grey Cock - keeps appointment, tells her he is dead, spends night, leaves at (early) cockcrow She/he knew he was dead, got him out of grave some way or other: Child 78 Unquiet grave - wept on his grave, he come up to say "stop it" Child 49 Rolling of the Stones/Two Brothers - in some versions she charms him from his grave. [I had trouble understanding how Two brothers and Rolling of the Stones were the same ballad until I heard Paul Davenport's version Rolling of the Stones ] [Child 79 Wife of Usher's Well - mother asked for dead sons' return] I may have left out some. All of these ballads have versions in the Digital Tradition, search for "Child #[whatever]"
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