Ghosts clank chains. (Cf. E501.13.1.2., E755.2.2.)

Motif

Ghosts clank chains. (Cf. E501.13.1.2., E755.2.2.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E565

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

North CarolinaBrown Collection I 675.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous actions of revenants.

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

Travels with

Wild hunt heralded by rattle of chains Souls in chains in hell. (Cf. A671.2.4.7, Q566.1.)

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