μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Dead carry off living.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Other malevolent revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E266

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 468
  • Africa (Bulu) Krug 109.
  • general Wimberly 257
Within the index

Filed under Other malevolent revenants.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Ghost of suicide drags people into stream Ghost leads people to commit suicide
Filed beside it
Wandering ghost makes attack. Unprovoked and usually unmotivated Ghost rides on man's back Adulteress returns from dead as devastating dragon Ghost drives priest into oven Meeting ghost causes misfortune 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

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