Wandering skull pursues man — Mythoi

Motif

Wandering skull pursues man.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Other malevolent revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E261.1

Filed across the traditions

Indonesian DeVries Volksverhalen I 299
N. Am. Indian (Zuñi) Benedict 342.
general *Brown The Wandering Skull (Am. Journ. Philology XI 423ff.)

Within the index

Filed under Wandering ghost makes attack. Unprovoked and usually unmotivated.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost's flying head attacks slayer Speaking skull tells about previous life, reveals future events, etc Hero attacked by revenant with half a head, carrying man with half a body. (Cf. E461, E422.1.1, F511.0.5.)

Filed beside it

Dead arises when shroud bursts and pursues attendant Man attacked on Christmas night by dancing ghosts Ghost pursues man Ghost beats living man with whip

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