Wandering ghost makes attack. Unprovoked and usually unmotivated.
The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Other malevolent revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E261
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references
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.
- IrishJacobs Celtic 200, Kennedy 180, O'Suilleabhain 30, 99, Beal XXI 309, 331
- New YorkJones JAFL LVII 246
- Icelandic*Boberg
- LithuanianBalys Index No. 3542, Legends No. 712
- RussianRalston 271, 274, 313
- Finnish-SwedishWessman 27 Nos. 229–240
- LappishQvigstad FFC LX 40 No. 11
- general cf. 2 Nos. 15–17
- general N. Am. Indian (Kathlamet): Boas BBAE XXVI 182, 184 (Tahltan): Teit JAFL XXXII 225.