Ghost of murdered child.
The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Dead relative's malevolent return. · view the constellation · filed as E225
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 6
- Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 126
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXXX. Tabooed Persons
- Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. V
- Literary CrystallizationUlysses, 9 Scylla and Charybdis
Scholars’ trail — 7references
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- English*Child I 218 No. 20
- EstonianAarne FFC XXV 114 No. 9
- FinnishAarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 9
- LappishQvigstad FFC LX 40 No. 3
- New YorkJones JAFL LVII 241, 244
- Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 392, 410, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 181.
- general Tobler 30
Within the index
Filed under Dead relative's malevolent return.
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