The Sleeping Army. Soldiers killed in battle come forth on occasions from their resting place (hill, grave, grotto) and march about or send their leader to do so

Motif

The Sleeping Army. Soldiers killed in battle come forth on occasions from their resting place (hill, grave, grotto) and march about or send their leader to do so.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Phantom hosts. · view the constellation · filed as E502

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Schweda 59ff.
general *Hartland Science 216ff.
general Howey 9
general England, Scotland, Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Phantom hosts.

Filed beside it

The Wild Hunt. (Cf. F282.) (Die Wilde Jagd, Das Wütende Heer, Odinsjæger, Chasse Fantastique.) A ghostly hunter and his rout continue the chase

Travels with

Ghostly voice heard on battlefield. (Cf. E502, F418.)

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