The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Ghost of young woman asks for ride in automobile, disappears from closed car without the driver's knowledge, after giving him address to which she wishes to be taken. Driver asks person at address about the rider, finds she has been dead for some time. (Often driver finds that ghost has made similar attempts to return, usually on anniversary of death in automobile accident. Often ghost leaves some item such as a scarf or a traveling bag in car.) — Mythoi

Motif

The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Ghost of young woman asks for ride in automobile, disappears from closed car without the driver's knowledge, after giving him address to which she wishes to be taken. Driver asks person at address about the rider, finds she has been dead for some time. (Often driver finds that ghost has made similar attempts to return, usually on anniversary of death in automobile accident. Often ghost leaves some item such as a scarf or a traveling bag in car.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Locations haunted by non-malevolent dead. · view the constellation · filed as E332.3.3.1

Cited in the index

general **Beardsley and Hankey California Folklore Quarterly I 303ff.
general Hawaii, U.S.: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Ghost asks for ride in automobile.

Filed beside it

Deity as ghostly rider

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Dead person visits earth periodically. (Cf. E332.3.3.1, E535.3.) Ghost vanishes when taken home. (Cf. E332.3.3.1.)

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