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E. THE DEAD

E247   Ghost kills man who had had ghost exorcised for too short a time, 25

E332.2   Person meets ghost on road, 27

E334.5   Ghost of soldier haunts battlefield, 53

E401.1.2   Footsteps of invisible ghost heard, 25

E422.0.1   Hanged man thirsty, demands water to drink, 52

E422.1.1.4   Headless ghost carries head under arm, 27

E441   Ghost laid by reburial, 26

E451.4.1   Ghost asked to identify self “in name of God”, 26

E501   The Wild Hunt, 18

E581.2   Ghost rides horse, 53

E585.4   Revenant revisits earth yearly, 53

E587.5   Ghost walks at midnight, 27

E613.0.1   Reincarnation of murdered child as bird, 5

E723   Wraiths of persons separate from body, 28

E765   Life bound up with external object or event, 12

E765.3.4   Girl lives until her cowslip is pulled, 12

E782.4   Horse’s leg cut off and replaced, 36

F. MARVELS

F211.2   Fairyland entrance under stone, 8

F234.1. Fairy in form of cow (bull), 20

F234.2.5   Fairy in form of beautiful young woman, 9

F235.4.1   Fairies made visible through use of ointment, 11

F236.1.6   Fairy in green clothes, 9

F258.1   Fairies hold a fair 7, 10

F342.1   Fairy gold 7, 10

F352   Theft of cup (drinking horn) from fairies, 10

F361.14   Fairies punish mortals who refuse to leave food for them, 20

F363   Fairies cause death, 9

F369.7   Fairies lead travelers astray, 20

F372.1   Fairies take human midwife to attend fairy woman, 11

F378.6   Tabu: using fairy bath-water, soap, or ointment while bathing fairy child, 11

F404   Means of summoning spirits, 9

F420.1.2.1   Watermaidens are of unusual beauty, 19

F420.5.2.1   Waterspirits lure mortal into water, 19

F491.1   Will-o’-the-wisp leads people astray, 68

F531.3.1   Giant wades the ocean, 29

F531.3.2   Giant throws a great rock 31, 32

F531.3.2.1   Church built where giants throw stones, 30

F531.3.9   Giants sit in mountains and wash feet in stream below, 29

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