Ghost tries to kill person for food — Mythoi

Motif

Ghost tries to kill person for food.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Bloodthirsty revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E253

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Nyang) Ittman 58.

Within the index

Filed under Bloodthirsty revenants.

Filed beside it

Vampire. Corpse which comes from grave at night and sucks blood. (Cf. B16.7.1, E268.) Ghosts flay corpse Ghosts eat corpse Ghosts seek firewood to roast man Bloodthirsty revenants – miscellaneous

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