μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • 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 streamGhost leads people to commit suicide
Filed beside it
Wandering ghost makes attack. Unprovoked and usually unmotivatedGhost rides on man's backAdulteress returns from dead as devastating dragonGhost drives priest into ovenMeeting ghost causes misfortuneDead tears living to piecesGhost (revenant) kills by spewing water from his mouth on Hallowe'en. (Cf. F211.1.1.1.)Sea-ghosts. Ghosts which haunt the seaRoad-ghosts. (Cf. E332ff., E582.) Ghosts which haunt roadsChurchyard ghostsGallows ghost. Ghost haunts gallowsGhost haunts place of great accident or misfortuneGhosts haunt treeGhosts haunt springMalevolent revenants – miscellaneous

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