μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "revenant"
  • SlavicMáchal 230
  • LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 44f. Nos. 40–77 passim
  • EstonianLoorits Grundzüge I 153–170, 506–519
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 41 Nos. 12–16
  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 1ff., Landtman Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VII pt. 1, 199f. – Melanesian: Dixon 142ff.
  • general *Wimberly 451f. s. v. "Ghost", "ghosts"
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Gespenst"
  • general *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XX 353
  • general *Feilberg Sjæletro (København, 1914). – Irish: O'Suilleabhain 62, Beal XXI 324
Within the index
2 finer motifs beneath it
Voices of dead heard from graveyardMysterious ghostlike noises heard. (Song, animal cries, footsteps, etc.) (Cf. E337.1, E236.7.)
Travels with
Witch may be recognized after death by great weight of corpse. (Cf. E400.)

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