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

Motif

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

ScotchCampbell Tales II 290, 299
IrishO'Suilleabhain 33, Beal XXI 310
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 669, 671
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 248
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 311 No. 46, 323 No. 101
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3505
general *Type 326
general BP I 22ff.
general England, Scotland, U.S.: Baughman (F470)
general Finnish-Swedish Wessman 25 Nos. 220–222.

Within the index

Filed under Ghosts haunt buildings. (Cf. H1411.)

4 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Ghosts haunt castle. (Cf. F771.4.5.)Ghosts haunt church Ghost haunts cloister Ghost haunts well, prevents drawing water after dark

Carried in tale types

The Youth Who Wanted to Learn What Fear Is · ATU 3261 recorded variant

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