Abe (cloak phantom)
Abe / Abja
Female ghost or phantom in a coarse woollen cloak (Turk.
Description
Female ghost or phantom in a coarse woollen cloak (Turk. aba) — Elsie 2001 s.v. Abe. The name is the garment; the Dictionary keeps a one-sentence entry with no narrative cycle.
Motifs
- cloak phantom
- turk aba loan
Lead story
A woman’s shape in a coarse woollen cloak — the aba that named her. That is the whole Elsie line. No village cycle, no grave bargain, no blood — a phantom named for the cloth she wears.
Aliases
abe · abja
Region
Thin dictionary entry; no fixed cycle locale
Relations
- Avullushe (vapor smotherers)near
- Flama (disease ghost)related thin ghost type
- Lugat (pest-revenant)not the same as
- Pelhure (white-shroud path-blocker)not the aba cloak phantom
- Shpirt i keq (Evil Spirit)not the aba cloak phantom
Linked stories
Elsie Pëlhuraza is the Mat tall white-shroud path-blocker. Abe is the coarse woollen aba cloak phantom — keep the two distinct.
- Abe the cloak phantomReconstructed
Abe is a woman’s shape in a coarse aba cloak—Elsie’s thin phantom stub.