μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E442.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Ghosts.
Within the index

Filed under Ghost laid by piercing grave (corpse) with stake. (Cf. D712.10, E431.16.2.)

Filed beside it
Ghost laid by burial outside village on far side of stream, with four iron nails driven into the corners of the grave

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