Hungry ghosts haunt house seeking food — Mythoi

Motif

Hungry ghosts haunt house seeking food.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Ghosts haunt buildings. · view the constellation · filed as E281.1

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 241.

Within the index

Filed under Ghosts haunt house. (It is sometimes hard to tell whether haunters are supposed to be ghosts or familiar spirits of some kind.)

Filed beside it

Ghost kills man who stays in haunted house Ghostly horse enters house and puts hoofs on breast of sleeper Ghost haunts particular room in house

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