μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Sea-ghosts. Ghosts which haunt the sea.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Other malevolent revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E271

Filed across the traditions
  • Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 40ff. Nos. 6, 17–22.
Within the index

Filed under Other malevolent revenants.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Ghost brings disaster on sailors Sea-ghost predicting death
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 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.) 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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