Light remark about what person would do if ghost appeared causes ghost to appear. (Cf. C10, C13.)

Motif

Light remark about what person would do if ghost appeared causes ghost to appear. (Cf. C10, C13.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Ghost summoned. · view the constellation · filed as E386.5

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

EnglandBaughman.

Within the index

Filed under Other means of summoning ghost.

Filed beside it

Ghost summoned by holy water Ghost summoned by charm Ghosts summoned by calling them by name Walking around a grave twelve times backward will raise the ghost

Travels with

Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.)The offended skull (statue) (Festin de Pierre). A skull (statue) is invited to dinner. Attends the dinner and takes his host off to the other world

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