Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous

Motif

Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as E400

Filed across the traditions

Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "revenant"
Slavic Máchal 230
Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 44f. Nos. 40–77 passim
Estonian Loorits Grundzüge I 153–170, 506–519
Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 41 Nos. 12–16
Finnish-Swedish Wessman 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 graveyard Mysterious ghostlike noises heard. (Song, animal cries, footsteps, etc.) (Cf. E337.1, E236.7.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Witch may be recognized after death by great weight of corpse. (Cf. E400.)

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