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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
B
Animal Motifs
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| E583 | Dead persons draw chariot. India: Thompson-Balys, Tawney I 457. |
| E577.1 | Dead persons play ball. (Cf. E494.) Wimberly 233. |
| E577.2 | Dead persons play cards. *Type 326; Fb "spøgelse" III 520a; U.S.: Baughman. |
| E577 | Dead persons play games. U.S.: Baughman; Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 153. |
| E377.1 | Dead poet leaves grave mound to teach poem to herdsman: latter becomes great poet. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| E545.16 | Dead predict calamity or disaster. |
| E545.2 | Dead predict death. (Cf. E363.3.) Wimberly 268; England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E545.16.1 | Dead predict war. (See E575.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| E363.5 | Dead provide material aid to living. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E452.1 | Dead quiescent during day. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 99. |
| E363.4 | Dead reassures living. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E320 | Dead relative's friendly return. |
| E229 | Dead relative's malevolent return—miscellaneous. |
| E220 | Dead relative's malevolent return. *Fb "spøgelse" III 520b; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3531; West Indies: Flowers 428. |
| E586.3 | Dead return second day after burial. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 99. |
| E342 | Dead return to fulfill bargain. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E586.1 | Dead returns on burial day. Fb "spøgelse" III 519ab; Spanish Exempla: Keller; England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E586 | Dead returns soon after burial. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E586.2 | Dead returns third day after burial. Fb "sjæl" III 214b, "spøgelse" III 519b; N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 101; Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 153. |
| E374 | Dead returns to life and tells of journey to land of dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E345 | Dead returns to repair injury. Fb "spøgelse" III 521b. |
| E351 | Dead returns to repay money debt. Herbert III 96 No. 38; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 327 No. 23; cf. French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 13; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 53, 97, Beal XXI 319, 331; Scotland: Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E345.1 | Dead returns to replace boundary marks he has removed. (Cf. E416.) *Fb "skjel" III 264a; Tobler 93; England, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman; New York: Miller NYFQ I 105f.; Irish: Beal XXI 310, O'Suilleabhain 33. |
| E352 | Dead returns to restore stolen goods. *BP III 235; Tobler 65; Fb "gjenganger" I 443b.—Irish: O'Suilleabhain 98, Beal XXI 331; England: *Baughman; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 313 No. 80, 327 No. 23. |
| E364 | Dead returns to say farewell. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3502, Balys Ghosts. |
| E373.4 | Dead returns to supply tribe with money demanded by landlord. Jewish: Neuman. |
| E415.2 | Dead rich man returns to rebuke his children who have kept the money he promised to the church. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| E586.4 | Dead sent back to life because his name is not in heavenly roll. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E325 | Dead sister's friendly return. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 98; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 178. |
| E361.3 | Dead son tells mother that no mortal escapes death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E545.6 | Dead speak on Hallowe'en. (Cf. V70.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E221 | Dead spouse's malevolent return. Usually to protest with survivor because of evil ways. English: Child II 281 No. 86; Danish: Grundtvig Danmarks Gamle Folkeviser No. 89b; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3526; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 114 No. 6; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 6 No. 47; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 245; West Indies: Flowers 428. |
| E211.2 | Dead sweetheart appears to seducer every evening, even after he has married another woman. England: Baughman. |
| E211 | Dead sweetheart haunts faithless lover. English: Child I 426; U.S.: Baughman, (North Carolina): Brown Collection I 676, (New York): Jones JAFL LVII 245; Corsican: Ortoli Contes Pop. de la Corse (Paris, 1883) 322, 330. |
| E211.1 | Dead sweetheart in the form of a white rabbit follows seducer. England: *Baughman. |
| E267 | Dead tears living to pieces. Wimberly 264. |
| E2 | Dead tree comes to life. Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 47. |
| E221.1 | Dead wife haunts husband on second marriage. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 146; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 185; England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E322.2.1 | Dead wife returns and asks husband to go with her to spirit world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E322.1 | Dead wife returns and bears children for husband. *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 323. |
| E322.4 | Dead wife returns in form of bird. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 183; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E322.7 | Dead wife returns to another person to have him write a letter to her husband. England: Baughman. |
| E322.6 | Dead wife returns to live with her husband until his death. U.S.: *Baughman; S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 685. |
| E221.2.1 | Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife for abusing her step-children. N. A. Indian (Fox): Jones PAES I 153. |
| E221.2 | Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife. Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman; N. A. Indian (Pawnee): Grinnell Pawnee Hero Stories 129. |
| E322.2 | Dead wife returns to wake husband. *Types 403, 450.—New York: Jones JAFL LVII 245. |
| E221.5 | Dead wife torments husband who has let her die of neglect. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E322 | Dead wife's friendly return. (Cf. E221.2.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 104, Beal XXI 333; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Iroquois): Smith RBAE II 103, (Pawnee): Grinnell Pawnee Hero Stories (New York, 1889) 129, (Osage): Dorsey FM VII 43 No. 36. |
| E545.4 | Dead will not speak of their condition. England: Child II 231—3. |
| E412.3 | Dead without proper funeral rites cannot rest. Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 228ff.; Fb "spøgelse" III 521b; Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman; Greek: Fox 145; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 3 No. 25; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 123; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 342. |
| E598 | Death and return to life rids man of disease. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E175 | Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!" *Köhler-Bolte 555; Wesselski Märchen 192.—India: *Thompson-Balys; Philippine: Dixon 235; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 319 n. 154, (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 57; S. A. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 502. |
| E727.1 | Debate of body and soul. Soul having left body enters into debate with the body concerning relative merits of body and soul. (Cf. H500.) English: *Wells 411; Irish: Gaidoz and Dottin Revue Celtique X part 4, *Cross. |
| E431.7.2 | Decapitating in order to prevent return. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| E251.3 | Deeds of vampires. |
| E138.1 | Deer foster parent of hero comes alive from its burial hill when youth returns to spot and carries him off to jungle again. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E501.5.5.2 | Deer pursued in wild hunt. Schwartz Zs. f. Vksk. VII 232; RTP XXII 466. |
| E430 | Defense against ghosts and the dead. Frazer The Fear of the Dead (London, 1933—36); Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 335b s.v. "Geister"; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 309; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 251. |
| E604 | Definite number of reincarnations. |
| E332.3.3.2 | Deity as ghostly rider. Hawaii: *Baughman. |
| E752.1.2.1 | Demons amuse themselves by plaguing souls in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E411.0.7 | Demons cast evil man from grave leaving only his shroud. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| E754.1.1.1 | Demons powerless over souls commended to God before sleep. Jewish: bin Gorion I 238. |
| E755 | Destination of the soul. |
| E752.1.1 | Devil in disguise hunts souls. (Cf. G303.7.1.3.) French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 13; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 91 No. *773A. |
| E756.1 | Devils and angels contest for man's soul. *Wesselski Märchen 199; *Fb "djævel" IV 99b; *Crane Miraculis 87 No. 11; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI No. 808*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *808; Estonian: Aarne in FFC XXV No. 808*; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| E755.2.7 | Devils torment sinners in hell. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E755.2.8 | Dialogue between Christ and the souls in hell. (Cf. V211.7.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E238 | Dinner with the dead. Dead man is invited to dinner. Takes his host to other world. *Type 470; **MacKay; Hartland Science 192f.; U.S.: Baughman; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "repas"; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 470A*; Estonian: Aarne in FFC XX No. 472*; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC No. 835*. Cf. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 79. |
| E422.1.10.1 | Dismembered corpse reassembles. (Cf. E31.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E422.1.10 | Dismembered corpse. |
| E32.3 | Dismembered pigs come alive again if only bones are preserved. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E611.2.1.0.1 | Divinity reincarnated as bull. (Cf. A132.9.) Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 152, *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E611.2.0.1 | Divinity reincarnated as cow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E431.8 | Dog buried alive to prevent ghosts from walking. *Fb "hund" I 677a. |
| E439.3 | Dog saves man from malevolent living corpse. Dog killed, man safe. (Cf. B524.1.1.) Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 698f. |
| E501.4.1.8 | Dogs in single file in wild hunt. Schweda 25. |
| E501.4.1 | Dogs in wild hunt. Schweda 25; England: Baughman; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 50f., 56, Beal XXI 318f. |
| E501.4.1.9 | Dogs on leash in wild hunt. Schweda 25. |
| E501.4.1.4 | Dogs with eyes hanging out over mouth in wild hunt. Fb "øje" III 1165b. |
| E501.4.1.3 | Dogs with fiery eyes in wild hunt. Schweda 25. |
| E501.4.1.2 | Dogs with fiery tongues in wild hunt. Schweda 25; *Schwartz Zs. f. Vksk. VII 232; Fb "Odins jæger" II 732a; England: Baughman. |
| E722.2.6 | Doors fly open when one dies. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 685. |
| E422.4 | Dress of revenant. |
| E693.1 | Drowned girl reborn as leech to take revenge on murderers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E414 | Drowned person cannot rest in peace. (Cf. E334.4.) Fb "spøgelse" III 521b; Kristensen Danske Sagn V (1897) 90ff., 359ff., (1934) 70ff., 265ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 5 No. 40. |
| E631.0.5.1 | Dry branch on innocent man's grave blossoms as proof of innocence. Fb "uskyldig". |
| E439.2 | Dwarfs magically keep ghosts from rising. Icelandic: Göngu Hrolfssaga 337. |
| E411.0.6 | Earth rejects buried body. (Cf. V62.1.) Loomis White Magic 44; Irish myth: *Cross; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3748; Danish: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman. |
| E714.4.1 | Eaten heart gives one the owner's qualities. Fb "hjærte" IV 218b; N. A. Indian: *Hultkrantz 397—411; Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| E32.0.1 | Eaten person resuscitated. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Tonga: Beckwith Myth 483. |
| E501.19.3 | Effects of wild hunt remedied by asking the huntsmen for parsley. Plischke 74. |
| E501.19.2 | Effects of wild hunt remedied by asking the huntsmen for salt. Plischke 74. |
| E501.19.4 | Effects of wild hunt remedied by asking to partake in booty of hunt. This booty is the same kind as the hunt has already thrown down. (Cf. E501.18.2.) Plischke 74. |
| E501.19.5 | Effects of wild hunt remedied by eating part of flesh thrown down by it. (Cf. E501.18.2.) Plischke 75. |
| E501.19.6 | Effects of wild hunt remedied by prayer. Plischke 75. |
| E501.19.1 | Effects of wild hunt remedied by seeing it a year later in same place. Plischke 74. |
| E501.10.1 | Empty shoe follows wild hunt. Plischke 35. |
| E501.4.1.1 | Enormous pack of dogs in wild hunt. Overcome people by their mass. Plischke 32. |
| E501.17 | Evading or combating the wild hunt. |
| E501.18 | Evil effects of meeting wild hunt. |
| E728.1.1 | Evil spirit cast out of person by killing and resuscitating. Köhler-Bolte I 442ff. |
| E728.1 | Evil spirit cast out of person. England, U.S.: Baughman; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| E728 | Evil spirit possesses person. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E785.1.1 | Ewe's hide grafted to skinless head of wounded man. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E412.1 | Excommunicated person cannot rest in grave. Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 323. |
| E710.2 | External soul avenges murder. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 145. |
| E710 | External soul. A person (often a giant or ogre) keeps his soul or life separate from the rest of his body. *Type 302; *BP III 440; *Krappe in Penzer Ocean of Story VIII 107; *MacCulloch Childhood 118ff.; *Chauvin V 176 No. 100, II 193 No. 12; Fb "hjærte" IV 318b; Mélusine XI 263; *Penzer X 143 s.v. "External Soul"; Clouston Tales I 347; Köhler-Bolte I 161, 515; Gittée RTP II 283; Krappe Revue Archéologique (May-June 1933) 195—211.—Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "corps", "âme"; Icelandic: Fripjofssaga (Wenz ed., Halle 1914) 16; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 11; Greek: Grote I 136f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 178; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 346 n. 246a, *Hultkrantz 330—341; Africa (Swahili): Steere 3ff. |
| E781.3 | Eyes borrowed by animal. Later returned.—Africa (Kaffir): Theal 166. |
| E781.2 | Eyes bought back and replaced. *Type 533; *BP II 278 n. 1; *Köhler-Bolte I 463; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 83 No. 711A*; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| E781 | Eyes successfully replaced. Jacobs' list s.v. "Eyes exchanged"; Fb "øje" III 1166a; Köhler-Bolte I 434ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Gaster Thespis 333f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 139 No. 13. |
| E186 | Failure at resuscitation. |
| E37.1 | Failure to resuscitate because of premature disturbance of members to be left in cask for certain time. Köhler-Bolte I 140, 585; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3670; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E501.5.2 | Fairies pursued in wild hunt. Fb "Odins jæger" II 732ab. |
| E545.8 | Fairy converses with dead. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E217 | Fatal kiss from dead. English: Child I 439, II 229ff., 236f., III 512f., IV 474f. |
| E419.12 | Fate of ghosts of persons eaten by tigers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E765.4.3.1 | Father (and mother) will die on same day as daughter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E387.2.1 | Father summoned to get his sword. Icelandic: Hervararsaga 17—33, 102—13. |
| E765.4.3 | Father will die when daughter bears son. (Cf. E765.4.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E765.4.1 | Father will die when daughter marries. (Cf. E765.4.3.) Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 187. |
| E423.1.1.2 | Features of ghostly dog. |
| E30.1 | Felled tree restored by reassembling all cut parts. (Cf. E2.) Polynesian: Dixon *68 n. 38. |
| E710.1 | Ferocious animal guardian of separable soul of ogress. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E754.1.7 | Few grains of earth from river bed translates soul destined to an evil future to Paradise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E752.1.2 | Fiends play ball with a soul. Alphabet No. 699. |
| E461.2 | Fight of living person with dead in the grave. Andrews MPh X 601ff.; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 367ff., MacCulloch Eddic 309—11, *Boberg. |
| E461 | Fight of revenant with living person. (Cf. E261.1.3.) Fb "spøgelse" III 520b; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3542, Legends No. 882; N. A. Indian (Teton): Dorsey AA o.s. II (1889) 150, (Passamaquoddy): Leland Algonquin Legends 349, (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 96 No. 7. |
| E497 | Fighting warriors show the way of their past life and of their death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| E421.1.1.0.1 | First-born of a family cannot see ghosts. England: Baughman. |
| E421.3.7 | Flames issue from corpse's mouth. Penzer II 62; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| E171 | Flayed animal resuscitated. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E784 | Flesh regrows. Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chair"; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E631.0.2 | Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried person. *Fb "grav" I 478a, "skrift"; Irish myth: Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 2 No. 11; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 19 n. 3 (Hyacinth). |
| E631.1 | Flower from grave. BP II 126; Hungarian: Solymossy Hongaarache Sagen (1929) 243 No. 68, Moуr Ungarisches Jahrbuch V 430; India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 207. |
| E631.0.2.1 | Flower with "ave" on leaves. Crows from tomb as reward for faithful sayings of "Ave Maria". *Ward Catalogue of Romances II 654 No. 21; Herbert ibid. III 342; Von der Hagen Nos. 73, 88; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| E64.1.1.3 | Fly-whisk of life and death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E511.2.1 | Flying Dutchman has dead men as sailors. Fb "skib" III 243a. |
| E511.1.3 | Flying Dutchman sails because he defied the storm. Engert passim. |
| E511.1.1 | Flying Dutchman sails because of cruelty. See all references to E511. |
| E511.1.2 | Flying Dutchman sails because of pact with Devil. Engert 21ff. |
| E511.2 | Flying Dutchman's ship. |
| E541.1 | Food placed out for returning souls of dead. Germanic: Celander Nordisk Jul I 203ff., Wuttke Volksaberglaube 471, Archiv f. Religionsgeschichte XIX (1918) 134; Lappish: Rheen Svenska Landsmеlen XVII (1898) 27; Slavic: Máchal 230; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E402.1.2 | Footsteps of invisible ghost heard. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E501.1.4 | Forester as wild huntsman. Schweda 38. |
| E489.3 | Forgetting Charon's fee. Philosopher forgets to put coin in mouth before death (Charon's fee). Charon: "Don't you know the custom?" Answer: "Yes, but I couldn't put off dying for a quarter!"—Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| E722.1 | Form of soul as it leaves body at death. |
| E291.2 | Form of treasure-guarding ghost. |
| E251.4 | Form of Vampire. |
| E751.4 | Four (five) groups on Judgment Day. (Cf. A661.0.5.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E501.1.5 | Freemason as wild huntsman. Schweda 38. |
| E390 | Friendly return from the dead—miscellaneous. |
| E379 | Friendly return from the dead—other motifs. |
| E300 | Friendly return from the dead. Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 331; Jewish: Neuman. |
| E721.1.2.5 | Frightened soul cannot return to body. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 452. |
| E481.2.1.1 | Frightening thing at bridge to land of dead. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 99. |
| E694.3 | Frustrated boy reborn as lizard. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E694.2 | Frustrated woman reborn as tobacco plant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E274 | Gallows ghost. Ghost haunts gallows. Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 40 No. 9; U.S.: Baughman. |
| E499.1 | Gay banquet of the dead. (Cf. E541.) England, U.S.: *Baughman; N. Y.: Jones JAFL LVII 241. |
| E268 | Ghost (revenant) kills by spewing water from his mouth on Hallowe'en. (Cf. F211.1.1.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E363.1 | Ghost aids living in emergency. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E363.6 | Ghost aids living otherwise. England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| E234.4 | Ghost an unjustly executed man. Real murderer found. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 194. |
| E291.2.2 | Ghost animal guards treasure. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E332.1 | Ghost appears at road and stream. England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E236.4.1 | Ghost appears at time of death, foils lawyer who is counterfeiting a will for the newly-deceased. England, Holland: *Baughman. |
| E321.5 | Ghost appears often to wife and daughter. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E236.4.2 | Ghost appears to remind his brother of the terms of his will. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E379.4 | Ghost as confederate of man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E421.3.4 | Ghost as fiery bull. Tobler 81; England, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| E421.3.2 | Ghost as firebrand. Fb "spøgelse" III 520b. |
| E421.3.1 | Ghost as glowing wheel. *Fb "hjul" I 626b, "spøgelse" III 521a, "gloende" IV 181b. |
| E422.1.11.3 | Ghost as hand or hands. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E575 | Ghost as omen of calamity or ill fortune. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E451.4.1 | Ghost asked to identify self "in name of God." U.S.: Baughman. |
| E599.4 | Ghost asks alms (from one who does not know that asker has died) at usual place and time. England: Baughman. |
| E332.3.3 | Ghost asks for ride in automobile. |
| E545.18 | Ghost asks to be taken to former home. (See all references to E332.3.3.1.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| E412.3.2.1 | Ghost asks to wash his shirt. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| E261.5 | Ghost beats living man with whip. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E553 | Ghost becomes log during day. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 101. |
| E459.4 | Ghost bound and jailed. England: Baughman. |
| E299.4 | Ghost breaks windows. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E271.1 | Ghost brings disaster on sailors. U.S., England: *Baughman. |
| E402.1.1.1 | Ghost calls. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E434.10 | Ghost cannot cross new door sill. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E434.8.1 | Ghost cannot harm person wearing a cross. England: Baughman. |
| E434.8 | Ghost cannot pass cross or prayerbook. (Cf. D1266.) Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 335b s.v. "Geister"; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| E592 | Ghost carries burden. |
| E592.2 | Ghost carries coffin on back. Wimberly 238. |
| E599.7 | Ghost carries lantern. (Cf. E371.10, E472, E594, E530.1, F491.1.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| E592.1 | Ghost carries own dead body. Kai (German New Guinea): Dixon 142. |
| E299.1 | Ghost causes machinery to run unattended. Canada, England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E292 | Ghost causes storms. England: *Baughman. |
| E272.4 | Ghost chases pedestrian on road. England: Baughman. |
| E545.11 | Ghost chooses own requiem. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E266.1.1 | Ghost claims a life every seven years by drowning person in river. England: *Baughman. |
| E445.1 | Ghost comes through certain crevice: when this is barred she never returns. Tobler 92. |
| E402.1.1.3 | Ghost cries and screams. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E432 | Ghost deceived. |
| E459.1 | Ghost demands a body and soul before it will agree to be laid. Monk provides cock and sole of shoe. England: Baughman. |
| E436.1 | Ghost detected by strewing ashes. Their footprints remain in the ashes. Fb "spor" III 500a; Gaster Germania XXV (1880) 290ff.; Dh III 153; Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 297; Güntert Kalypso 75; Kruyt Het Animisme 398; Mansikka Religion der Ostslaven (Helsinki, 1922) 181, 184. |
| E436 | Ghost detected. |
| E545.12 | Ghost directs man to hidden treasure. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E279.2 | Ghost disturbs sleeping person. (Cf. E281.2.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E556.1 | Ghost drinks liquor. England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| E556 | Ghost drinks. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E437.3 | Ghost driven into body of dead crow, buried under path. England: Baughman. |
| E236.6 | Ghost drives away his relatives who are trying to get estate from his wife. England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| E264 | Ghost drives priest into oven. Fb "ovn" II 774a. |
| E541.2 | Ghost eats living human beings. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| E443 | Ghost exorcized and laid. *Fb "bande" IV 24a, "Jesus" II 41a; Tobler 65; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 115 No. 11; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 11; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 7 No. 51, 27 No. 243; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 251; West Indies: Flowers 430. |
| E324.2 | Ghost family visits grave of father. England: Baughman. |
| E451 | Ghost finds rest when certain thing happens. |
| E419.9 | Ghost flits between two graves reputed to contain body. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E272.3 | Ghost frightens people off bridge into stream. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| E334.2 | Ghost haunts burial spot. (Cf. E411.1.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E284 | Ghost haunts cloister. Herbert III 83 (étienne de Bourbon). |
| E275.1 | Ghost haunts mine after tragedy. (Cf. E336.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E279.4 | Ghost haunts park, terrifies watchers. England: Baughman. |
| E281.3 | Ghost haunts particular room in house. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E275 | Ghost haunts place of great accident or misfortune. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 25 No. 225. |
| E334.1 | Ghost haunts scene of former crime or sin. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E285 | Ghost haunts well, prevents drawing water after dark. England: Baughman. |
| E552 | Ghost in form of bear sneezes. (Cf. E423.2.1.) Tobler 56. |
| E291.2.1 | Ghost in human form guards treasure. Canada, England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E426.1 | Ghost in shape of a bag. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| E422.4.3 | Ghost in white. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 681f. |
| E452.2 | Ghost invisible during day. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 99. |
| E454 | Ghost is laid by giving it a never-ending or impossible task. (Cf. H900, H1010.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E581.2.1 | Ghost jumps on horse behind man. (Cf. E262.) North Carolina: Brown Collection I 681. |
| E446 | Ghost killed and thus finally laid. N. A. Indian (Sioux): Dorsey RBAE XI 491f., (Fox): Jones PAES I 101 No. 7, (Osage): Dorsey FM VII 26 No. 21; Eskimo: Kroeber JAFL XII 181, (Greenland): Holm 55, Rasmussen III 182. |
| E247 | Ghost kills man who had had ghost exorcised for too short a time. England: Baughman. |
| E232.3 | Ghost kills man who interferes with ghostly activity. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E281.0.1 | Ghost kills man who stays in haunted house. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E471 | Ghost kisses living person. *Fb "gjenganger" I 444a. |
| E437.7 | Ghost laid and confined in sheepfold. England: Baughman. |
| E437.6 | Ghost laid and confined inside building. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E452 | Ghost laid at cockcrow (dawn). Fb "spøgelse" III 519b, "kok" IV 272b; Köhler-Bolte III 581; Wimberly 248.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "coq"; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 94—112 passim; English: Child II 228, V 294; Finnish, Swedish: Wessman 1 No. 6; India: *Thompson-Balys; Melanesian, Polynesian: *Dixon 141 n. 24; Kai (German New Guinea): ibid. 144; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 96 No. 7, (Teton): Dorsey AA o.s. II (1889) 151. |
| E459.5 | Ghost laid at midnight. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E443.5 | Ghost laid by adjuring it to leave "in the name of God." Wales: Baughman. |
| E443.6 | Ghost laid by baptizing children in its presence. England: *Baughman. |
| E445 | Ghost laid by barring off. |
| E446.3.1 | Ghost laid by beating body to pieces. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 99. |
| E443.8 | Ghost laid by Bible. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E443.1 | Ghost laid by blessing grave. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 115 No. 10. |
| E442.2 | Ghost laid by burial outside village on far side of stream, with four iron nails driven into the corners of the grave. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E446.2 | Ghost laid by burning body. *Fb "spøgelse" III 522a, "brænde" IV 69a.—Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| E446.2.1 | Ghost laid by burning lock of hair. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
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