μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "fantôme"
  • North CarolinaBrown Collection I 684
  • New YorkJones JAFL LVII 239.
Within the index

Filed under Appearance of revenant.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Invisible ghostsGhosts cast no shadowLuminous ghosts. (Cf. E530.1, E742.)Ghosts as shadowGhost seen by two or more persons; they corroborate the appearance
Filed beside it
The living corpse. Revenant is not a specter but has the attributes of a living person. He wanders about till his "second death", complete disintegration in the grave. (Cf. E261.1.3, E268, E461.)Revenant in animal formRevenant as dwarfRevenant in human formRevenant as object

wander