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

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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

Filed across the traditions

Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 40 No. 10
New York Jones JAFL LVII 248
North Carolina Brown 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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

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