μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Walking ghost "laid".

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E440

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish Beal XXI 332
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 53 No. 400A*
  • Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 114 No. 6.
  • general *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 324
  • general *v. Negelein ibid. XIV 20ff.
Within the index
12 finer motifs beneath it
Ghost laid by reburial Ghost laid by piercing grave (corpse) with stake. (Cf. D712.10, E431.16.2.) Ghost exorcized and laid Ghost laid by talisman Ghost laid by barring off Ghost killed and thus finally laid Ghost finds rest when certain thing happens Ghost laid at cockcrow (dawn) Ghost transformed into animal. (Cf. D100, E423.) Ghost is laid by giving it a never-ending or impossible task. (Cf. H900, H1010.) Man raises corpses and gets their shrouds, then "lays" them again Other exorcism practices

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