Dead person rides

Motif

Dead person rides.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E581

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

NorseThe Poetic Edda, HELGAKVITHA HUNDINGSBANA IIHELGAKVITHA HUNDINGSBANA II
NorseThe Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), PART OF THE SECOND LAY OF HELGI HUNDINGS-BANE
NorseThe Poetic Edda, GUTHRUNARHVOTGUTHRUNARHVOT
Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XI
NorseThe Prose Edda (The Younger Edda), THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. XV

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.

North CarolinaBrown Collection I 680–682.
general Fb "spøgelse" III 520a

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous actions of revenants.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Whirlwind as ghost's vehicle Ghost rides horse Ghost rides cow Ghost rides bus Ghost rides heavy iron chest Ghost rides giant demijohn Ghost sails over sound on bundle of straw

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

Non-malevolent road ghosts. (Cf. E272, E581, E582.)Ghost on road asks traveler for ride. (Cf. E581, E582.)

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