Road-ghosts. (Cf. E332ff., E582.) Ghosts which haunt roads

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Road-ghosts. (Cf. E332ff., E582.) Ghosts which haunt roads.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Other malevolent revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E272

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 40 No. 10
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 248
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 674.
general England, U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Other malevolent revenants.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost rides in cart. Horse can scarcely pull cart, later dies or goes mad. (Cf. D1654.9, E332, E411.0.3.)Ghost rides behind rider on horse. (Cf. E215.)Ghost frightens people off bridge into stream Ghost chases pedestrian on road Ghost misleads traveler on road. See similar actions of fairies, witches, Will-o-the-wisp. (Cf. F402.1.1.)

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.)Sea-ghosts. Ghosts which haunt the sea 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

Non-malevolent road ghosts. (Cf. E272, E581, E582.)

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