Churchyard ghosts

Motif

Churchyard ghosts.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Other malevolent revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E273

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XII
YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 7

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.

LappishQvigstad FFC LX 40 No. 8
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 675.
general Fb "spøgelse" III 519b

Within the index

Filed under Other malevolent revenants.

1 finer motif beneath it

Ghosts prevent burial of corpse

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 Road-ghosts. (Cf. E332ff., E582.) Ghosts which haunt roads 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 churchyard ghost. (Cf. E273.)

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