Dead person spins

Motif

Dead person spins.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E561

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 8

Cited in the index

general Fb "spøgelse" III 520a, "spinde" III 492a
general England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous actions of revenants.

1 finer motif beneath it

Sight of dead woman spinning drives people insane

Filed beside it

Revenants eat. (Cf. E499.1.) Dead man touches living Dead drag boat to strand Ghost leaves evidence of his appearance. (Cf. E322.3.3.1, E542. 1ff.) The dead speak The dead sing. (Cf. E371.3.) The dead wail (Cf. E402ff.) Dead make music on their ribs Dead man sobs. (Cf. E402.1.1.) Ghost in form of bear sneezes. (Cf. E423.2.1.) Ghost becomes log during day Ghost plays musical instrument Dead man smokes pipe Ghost drinks Dead man writes Ghosts forced to labor

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