μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ghost rides on horseback with rider. (Cf. E215.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Locations haunted by non-malevolent dead. · view the constellation · filed as E332.3.1

Filed across the traditions
  • U.S. Baughman.
Within the index

Filed under Ghost on road asks traveler for ride. (Cf. E581, E582.)

Filed beside it
Ghost rides in carriage, disappears suddenly at certain spot Ghost asks for ride in automobile
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
The Dead Rider (Lenore). Dead lover returns and takes sweetheart with him on horseback. She is sometimes saved at the grave by the crowing of the cock, though the experience is usually fatal

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