Ghost rides on man's back

Motif

Ghost rides on man's back.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Other malevolent revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E262

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

IcelandicBoberg
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3511.
general *Fb "ryg" III 103a, "spøgelse" III 520a
general E. H. Meyer Germanische 76
general Schönbach Sitzungsberichte d. Phil. Hist. Classe der Kaiserl. Akad. d. Wiss. zu. Wien CXXXIX (1890) 135

Within the index

Filed under Other malevolent revenants.

Filed beside it

Wandering ghost makes attack. Unprovoked and usually unmotivated Adulteress returns from dead as devastating dragon Ghost drives priest into oven Meeting ghost causes misfortune Dead carry off living Dead tears living to pieces Ghost (revenant) kills by spewing water from his mouth on Hallowe'en. (Cf. F211.1.1.1.)Sea-ghosts. Ghosts which haunt the sea Road-ghosts. (Cf. E332ff., E582.) Ghosts which haunt roads Churchyard ghosts Gallows ghost. Ghost haunts gallows Ghost haunts place of great accident or misfortune Ghosts haunt tree Ghosts haunt spring Malevolent revenants – miscellaneous

Travels with

Ghost jumps on horse behind man. (Cf. E262.)

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