The constellation
E272 Road-ghosts. (Cf. E332ff., E582.) Ghosts which haunt roads
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Other malevolent revenants · E260 entry
beneath it
- Ghost rides in cart. Horse can scarcely pull cart, later dies or goes mad. (Cf. D1654.9, E332, E411.0.3.) · E272.1 entry
- Ghost rides behind rider on horse. (Cf. E215.) · E272.2 entry
- Ghost frightens people off bridge into stream · E272.3 entry
- Ghost chases pedestrian on road · E272.4 entry
- Ghost misleads traveler on road. See similar actions of fairies, witches, Will-o-the-wisp. (Cf. F402.1.1.) · E272.5 entry
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