Ghost-like lights

Motif

Ghost-like lights.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Ghosts of objects. · view the constellation · filed as E530.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Paradise 15

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 23 No. 210
general England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Ghosts of objects.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost light follows ghost Ball of fire haunts murderer Ghost light haunts burial spot Ghost light on farm indicates that occupants will move shortly Ghost light indicates impending calamity Ghost light serves as death omen. (Cf. D1812.5.)Ghost light indicates route funeral will take. (Cf. D1825.7.1.)

Filed beside it

Ghost-like building Ghost-like picture Ghostly bell Phantom spinning-wheel makes noise Ghostlike conveyance (wagon, etc.)Ghoulish ghost objects Other ghostly objects

Travels with

Luminous ghosts. (Cf. E530.1, E742.)Ghost carries lantern. (Cf. E371.10, E472, E594, E530.1, F491.1.)

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