Ghost visible to one person alone

Motif

Ghost visible to one person alone.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Appearance of revenant. · view the constellation · filed as E421.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Spanish ExemplaKeller
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 243
Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen III 64
N. Am. Indian (Teton)Dorsey AA o.s. II (1889) 148.

Within the index

Filed under Invisible ghosts.

3 finer motifs beneath it

First-born of a family cannot see ghosts Persons born at midnight can see ghosts Only sorcerers can see ghosts

Filed beside it

Ghost visible to horses alone Ghost visible to dogs alone Ghosts visible only to sheep Ghosts visible only to seals Ghost visible only to wild fowls

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