Sea-ghosts. Ghosts which haunt the sea

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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

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

LappishQvigstad FFC LX 40ff. Nos. 6, 17–22.

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Filed under Other malevolent revenants.

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Ghost brings disaster on sailors Sea-ghost predicting death

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