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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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Lithuanian Balys 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Ghost jumps on horse behind man. (Cf. E262.)

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