Decapitating in order to prevent return.
The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Defense against ghosts and the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E431.7.2
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)
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.
- Icelandic *Boberg.
Within the index
Filed under Beheaded man's head laid at feet to prevent return.
1 finer motif beneath it
Filed beside it