μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ghost asks for ride in automobile.

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

Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it
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.) Deity as ghostly rider
Filed beside it
Ghost rides on horseback with rider. (Cf. E215.) Ghost rides in carriage, disappears suddenly at certain spot

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