μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ghost laid by decapitating body.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E446.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3546A, Legends No. 621.
Within the index

Filed under Ghost killed and thus finally laid.

1 finer motif beneath it
Ghost laid by beating body to pieces
Filed beside it
Corpse magically killed and laid Ghost laid by burning body Slain ghost carried off by other ghosts Ghost laid by pushing it into water

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