Mysterious ghostlike noises heard. (Song, animal cries, footsteps, etc.) (Cf. E337.1, E236.7.)

Motif

Mysterious ghostlike noises heard. (Song, animal cries, footsteps, etc.) (Cf. E337.1, E236.7.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as E402

Filed across the traditions

Finnish-Swedish Wessman 24 Nos. 211–214
New York Jones JAFL LVII 250
England *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Noises caused by ghost of person Sounds made by invisible ghosts of animals. (Cf. E520.) Sound made by ghostly object. (Cf. E530.) Sound of ethereal music

Filed beside it

Voices of dead heard from graveyard

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Ghostly noises disturb village until stolen church plate is returned. (Cf. E402.) Sounds of re-enacted actions. (Cf. E402.) The dead wail (Cf. E402ff.)

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