Ghosts of objects — Mythoi

Motif

Ghosts of objects.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 6, Story 9
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXII XXII. Tabooed Words
Depth Commentary Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics , Chapter III

Filed across the traditions

Finnish-Swedish Wessman 23 No. 205.
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Geist"

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost-like lights 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

Sound made by ghostly object. (Cf. E530.)

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