Hungry ghosts haunt house seeking food

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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

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 241.

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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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