μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 7, 9.
Within the index

Filed under Defense against ghosts and the dead.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Mould put on table for the deadPossessions buried with deadAnimals sacrificed so that dead have food on way to other worldGhosts pleased by human sacrifices
Filed beside it
Precautions at funeral against revenantGhost deceivedMagic protection against revenantsGhost detectedRevenants banishedOther protection against revenants

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