μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E442.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree

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