The constellation
E452 Ghost laid at cockcrow (dawn)
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● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Walking ghost "laid" · E440 entry
beneath it
- Dead quiescent during day · E452.1 entry
- Ghost invisible during day · E452.2 entry
cross-ref
- Gods flee at approach of dawn. (Cf. E452.) · C311.1.8.1 entry
- Stone moves at cock-crow. (Cf. E452, N555.1.) · D1641.2.3 entry
- Ghosts walk from curfew to cockcrow. (Cf. E452.) · E587.3 entry
- Familiar comes at nightfall and disappears at cockcrow. (Cf. E452.) · G225.0.6 entry
- Series: white cock, red cock, black cock. These crow at dawn and scatter ghosts. (Cf. E452.) · Z65.2 entry
carried in tale type
- The Priest and the Devil · ATU 810A*