μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ghosts protect hidden treasure.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Malevolent return from the dead – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as E291

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Filed under Malevolent return from the dead – miscellaneous.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Person burying treasure kills person to supply guardian ghost Form of treasure-guarding ghost
Filed beside it
Ghost causes storms Ghosts frighten people (deliberately) Miscellaneous acts of malevolent ghosts
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Return from dead to reveal hidden treasure. (Cf. E276, E291, E419.11.2.)

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