Churchyard ghosts — Mythoi

Motif

Churchyard ghosts.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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

Filed across the traditions

Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 40 No. 8
North Carolina Brown 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

Non-malevolent churchyard ghost. (Cf. E273.)

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