Doors left open to let night creatures pass to and fro — Mythoi

Motif

Doors left open to let night creatures pass to and fro.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Spirits and demons (general). · view the constellation · filed as F406.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Māori Polynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race , Chapter 8
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 54 LIV. MUDJIKIWIS 7°

Cited in the index

general *Zingerle Sagen aus Tirol 2d ed. 590.

Within the index

Filed under Spirits propitiated.

Filed beside it

Food left out for spirits at night Spirits allow people with faces to ground to pass Demon of gluttony coaxed from man's throat with bits of food

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