μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The Flying Dutchman. A sea captain because of his wickedness sails his phantom ship eternally without coming to harbor.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Phantom sailors and travelers. · view the constellation · filed as E511

Cited in the index
  • general **G. Kalff De Sage van den Vliegenden Hollander (Zupthen, 1923)
  • general **Engert Die Sage vom Fliegenden Holländer
  • general **W. Söderhjelm Flygande holländeren (Helsingfors, 1890)
  • general *Andraea Anglia Beiblatt XIII (1902) 47
  • general Golther Zur deutschen Sage und Dichtung 7
  • general Fb "skib" III 243a
  • general England, U.S.: *Baughman.
Within the index

Filed under Phantom sailors and travelers.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Reason for Flying Dutchman's punishment Flying Dutchman's ship
Filed beside it
Phantom cart driver wanders because of blasphemy. "Peter Rugg the Missing Man." Boasts that he will reach home despite storm or never see his home again. He always travels in hard shower of rain or just ahead of one
Carried in tale types

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