Ghost summoned – miscellaneous — Mythoi

Motif

Ghost summoned – miscellaneous.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Ghost summoned. · view the constellation · filed as E389

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryThemis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, CHAPTER 1X
Depth CommentaryThemis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, EXCURSUS

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Filed under Ghost summoned.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost must be summoned by king else he appears head downward Summoned ghost audible and visible only to person who has summoned him

Filed beside it

Summoning souls punished: in hour of man's death they overwhelm him Ghost summoned by weeping Ghost summoned by pouring blood of sacrifices into trench Ghosts summoned by sacred book Ghost summoned by music Vigil of husband at wife's grave calls her forth Other means of summoning ghost Reasons for summoning of ghosts