Ghostly voice heard on battlefield. (Cf. E502, F418.)

Motif

Ghostly voice heard on battlefield. (Cf. E502, F418.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as E401.0.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Voices of dead heard from graveyard.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

The Sleeping Army. Soldiers killed in battle come forth on occasions from their resting place (hill, grave, grotto) and march about or send their leader to do so Spirits (demons) hover in air shrieking over battle. (Cf. F411.2.)

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