Ghosts cast no shadow

Motif

Ghosts cast no shadow.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Appearance of revenant. · view the constellation · filed as E421.2

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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.

U.S.Baughman
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 682.
general *Fb "skygge" III 347a
general *Handwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 138ff
general *Penzer IV 239 n. 2

Within the index

Filed under Spectral ghosts.

1 finer motif beneath it

Ghost leaves no footprints

Filed beside it

Invisible ghosts Luminous ghosts. (Cf. E530.1, E742.)Ghosts as shadow Ghost seen by two or more persons; they corroborate the appearance

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