μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • U.S.Baughman
  • Eskimo (Labrador)Hawkes GSCan XIV 153.
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous actions of revenants.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Dead persons play ball. (Cf. E494.)Dead persons play cardsDead persons bowl
Filed beside it
Revenants eat. (Cf. E499.1.)Dead man touches livingDead drag boat to strandGhost leaves evidence of his appearance. (Cf. E322.3.3.1, E542. 1ff.)The dead speakThe dead sing. (Cf. E371.3.)The dead wail (Cf. E402ff.)Dead make music on their ribsDead man sobs. (Cf. E402.1.1.)Ghost in form of bear sneezes. (Cf. E423.2.1.)Ghost becomes log during dayGhost plays musical instrumentDead man smokes pipeGhost drinksDead man writesGhosts forced to labor

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