Ghosts eat corpse — Mythoi

Motif

Ghosts eat corpse.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Bloodthirsty revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E256

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 238.

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.) Ghost tries to kill person for food Ghosts flay corpse Ghosts seek firewood to roast man Bloodthirsty revenants – miscellaneous

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