Headless revenant

Motif

Headless revenant.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Appearance of revenant. · view the constellation · filed as E422.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 300 No. 6, 301 No. 18, 311 No. 46
India*Thompson-Balys
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 680, 683, 693.
general *Fb "hoved" I 655b, "hovedløs" IV 223a
general England, U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Body of living corpse.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Two-headed ghost Revenant with ball of fire in place of head Actions of headless revenant Headless ghost carries head under arm. (Cf. F511.0.4.)

Filed beside it

Armless revenant Revenant with ice-cold hands Revenant with cold lips Revenant with bad breath Revenant with chicken feet Revenant with chip of resin between teeth Revenant with peculiar nails Living corpse returns every night, shows gradual wasting away of body Dismembered corpse Revenant as part of body

Travels with

Hero attacked by revenant with half a head, carrying man with half a body. (Cf. E461, E422.1.1, F511.0.5.)Headless ghostly dog. (Cf. B15.1.1, E422.1.1.)Headless ghost of hog. (Cf. E422.1.1.)

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