μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Spectral ghosts.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "fantôme"
  • North Carolina Brown Collection I 684
  • New York Jones JAFL LVII 239.
Within the index

Filed under Appearance of revenant.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Invisible ghosts Ghosts cast no shadow Luminous ghosts. (Cf. E530.1, E742.) Ghosts as shadow Ghost 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 form Revenant as dwarf Revenant in human form Revenant as object

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