Invisible ghosts

Motif

Invisible ghosts.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Appearance of revenant. · view the constellation · filed as E421.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXXX. Tabooed Persons

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

N. Am. Indian (Tahltan)Teit JAFL XXXII 226
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 681
JewishNeuman.
general *Tobler 92ff.
general England, Wales: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Spectral ghosts.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost visible to one person alone 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

Filed beside it

Ghosts cast no shadow Luminous ghosts. (Cf. E530.1, E742.)Ghosts as shadow Ghost seen by two or more persons; they corroborate the appearance

Travels with

Witch invisible. (Cf. A11, D1980, E421.1, G303.6.2.1, F235.1, E501.1.)

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