μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • ScotchCampbell Tales II 94–112 passim
  • EnglishChild II 228, V 294
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian (Seneca)Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 96 No. 7, (Teton): Dorsey AA o.s. II (1889) 151.
  • general Fb "spøgelse" III 519b, "kok" IV 272b
  • general Köhler-Bolte III 581
  • general Wimberly 248. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "coq"
  • general Finnish, Swedish: Wessman 1 No. 6
  • general Melanesian, Polynesian: *Dixon 141 n. 24
  • general Kai (German New Guinea): ibid. 144
Within the index

Filed under Walking ghost "laid".

2 finer motifs beneath it
Dead quiescent during dayGhost invisible during day
Filed beside it
Ghost laid by reburialGhost laid by piercing grave (corpse) with stake. (Cf. D712.10, E431.16.2.)Ghost exorcized and laidGhost laid by talismanGhost laid by barring offGhost killed and thus finally laidGhost finds rest when certain thing happensGhost 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 againOther exorcism practices
Travels with
Gods flee at approach of dawn. (Cf. E452.)Stone moves at cock-crow. (Cf. E452, N555.1.)Ghosts walk from curfew to cockcrow. (Cf. E452.)Familiar comes at nightfall and disappears at cockcrow. (Cf. E452.)Series: white cock, red cock, black cock. These crow at dawn and scatter ghosts. (Cf. E452.)
Carried in tale types

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