μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Noise of chains leads to buried ghost. (Cf. E402.1.4.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E231.4

Filed across the traditions
  • England Baughman.
Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to reveal murder.

Filed beside it
Ghost tells name of murderer Ghost skeleton points lance at murderer Ghost light hovers over hiding place of body of murdered person Ghost returns to murderer, causes him to confess
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Invisible ghost jingles chains. (Cf. E231.4.)

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