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• Rodent gnaws away ladder to other world and thus ghosts remain on earth. A666.2
• Ghosts of the sun's children return to cause eclipse. A737.4
• Stars as fires in the hearths of ghosts. A761.4
• Disease caused by ghosts. A1337.0.2
• Animal languages learned from ghosts (spirits). B217.3
• Tabu: shooting at consecrated wafer. Man's ghost wanders. C55.2
• Tabu: masking as ghost in graveyard. C94.5
• Tabu: eating in land of ghosts. C211.2.1
• Tabu: looking at ghosts. C311.1.1
• Tabu: looking through the upturned sleeve of a fur coat. One sees ghosts. C311.1.1.1
• Tabu: looking over cemetery walls, lest one see ghosts. C334
• Tabu: laughing at sight of ghosts. C462
• Tabu: sleeping on the path of ghosts. C735.2.6
• Tabu: finding name of ghost. C824
• Magic object received from ghost. D812.4
• Wagon refuses to move because ghost is sitting in it. (Cf. D1113, D1654.5.) D1317.10
• Magic circle protects from ghosts. (Cf. D1272.) D1381.11.2
• Silver bullet protects against giants, ghosts, and witches. (Cf. D1096.3.) D1385.4
• Copper as defense against ghosts and magic. (Cf. D1252.2.) D1385.5.1
• Saint's bachall keeps off monsters and ghosts. (Cf. D1277.) D1385.8
• Gift of tongues received from ghosts. D1815.0.1
• Knowledge of ghost language. D1815.1
• Lost object found by throwing spade at ghost. Where spade sticks one will find the lost object. D1816.2.1
• One becomes ghost-seer after looking through hole in coffin. D1821.3.5.1
• Ghost's strength waxes and wanes with height of fire. D1836.1
• Wind stopped by revenant. D2142.2.1
• Ghost transfers boil to a post. D2161.4.2.1
• Resuscitation: ghosts deceived so that they cannot find way back to grave. E141
• Mother's ghost tries to tear daughter to pieces. E222.1
• Ghost of murdered child. E225
• Ghost of abortion. E225.1
• "If I were not your next of kin." Ghost tells man that otherwise he would tear him into pieces. E229.1
• Ghost tells name of murderer. E231.1
• Ghost skeleton points lance at murderer. E231.2
• Ghost light hovers over hiding place of body of murdered person. E231.3
• Noise of chains leads to buried ghost. (Cf. E402.1.4.) E231.4
• Ghost returns to murderer, causes him to confess. E231.5
• Ghost returns to slay man who has injured it while living. E232.2
• Ghost kills man who interferes with ghostly activity. E232.3
• Ghost returns to slay enemies. E232.4
• Ghost punishes injury received in life. E234
• Ghost returns to demand vengeance. (Cf. E232.2.) E234.0.1
• Ghost slaps face of son who cheated him out of property. A cancer grows on son's face. E234.1
• Ghost stampedes stolen cattle being driven past his ranch. E234.2
• Ghost an unjustly executed man. Real murderer found. E234.4
• Return from dead to punish indignities to corpse, or ghost. E235
• Ghost punishes person who mocks him. E235.1
• Ghost returns to demand proper burial. E235.2
• Ghost returns because corpse was not properly burned. E235.2.2
• Return from dead as punishment for trying to raise ghost. (Cf. E384ff., F491.7.) Ghost accuses man of stealing a trifle and thus has revenge. E235.3
• Ghost appears at time of death, foils lawyer who is counterfeiting a will for the newly-deceased. E236.4.1
• Ghost appears to remind his brother of the terms of his will. E236.4.2
• Ghost drives away his relatives who are trying to get estate from his wife. E236.6
• Ghostly noises disturb village until stolen church plate is returned. (Cf. E402.) E236.7
• Ghost seeks repayment of stolen money. E236.8
• Ghosts punish intruders into ghost town. E241
• Ghosts punish intruders into mass (procession) of ghosts. E242
• Ghosts attack bishop who has suspended priest for singing for all Christian souls. E243
• Ghosts punish failure to provide for their wants. Haunt man because he does not leave food and drink for them. E245
• Ghosts punish failure to sacrifice to them. E246
• Ghost kills man who had had ghost exorcised for too short a time. E247
• Bloodthirsty revenants. E250
• Ghosts roast girl daily in oven and devour her flesh. E251.3.1.1
• Ghost sucks people's breath. E251.3.4
• Ghost tries to kill person for food. E253
• Ghosts flay corpse. E255
• Ghosts eat corpse. E256
• Ghosts seek firewood to roast man. E257
• Bloodthirsty revenants – miscellaneous. E259
• Ghosts may eat only female animals. E259.2
• Other malevolent revenants. E260
• Wandering ghost makes attack. Unprovoked and usually unmotivated. E261
• Ghost's flying head attacks slayer. E261.1.1
• Hero attacked by revenant with half a head, carrying man with half a body. (Cf. E461, E422.1.1, F511.0.5.) E261.1.3
• Man attacked on Christmas night by dancing ghosts. E261.3
• Ghost pursues man. E261.4
• Ghost of witch in her coffin chases man. E261.4.1
• Ghost beats living man with whip. E261.5
• Ghost rides on man's back. E262
• Ghost drives priest into oven. E264
• Meeting ghost causes misfortune. E265
• Meeting ghost causes sickness. (Cf. D2064.) E265.1
• Ghost of father slaps son's face; a cancer grows there. E265.1.2
• Ghost strikes man in face, making his mouth crooked. E265.1.3
• Meeting ghost causes person to go mad. (Cf. D2065.) E265.2
• Meeting ghost causes death. (Cf. E574.) E265.3
• Ghost of suicide drags people into stream. E266.1
• Ghost claims a life every seven years by drowning person in river. E266.1.1
• Ghost leads people to commit suicide. E266.2
• Ghost (revenant) kills by spewing water from his mouth on Hallowe'en. (Cf. F211.1.1.1.) E268
• Sea-ghosts. Ghosts which haunt the sea. E271
• Ghost brings disaster on sailors. E271.1
• Sea-ghost predicting death. E271.2
• Road-ghosts. (Cf. E332ff., E582.) Ghosts which haunt roads. E272
• Ghost rides in cart. Horse can scarcely pull cart, later dies or goes mad. (Cf. D1654.9, E332, E411.0.3.) E272.1
• Ghost rides behind rider on horse. (Cf. E215.) E272.2
• Ghost frightens people off bridge into stream. E272.3
• Ghost chases pedestrian on road. E272.4
• Ghost misleads traveler on road. See similar actions of fairies, witches, Will-o-the-wisp. (Cf. F402.1.1.) E272.5
• Churchyard ghosts. E273