THE CONCORDANCE

trees

2 records across 2 traditions carry this current.

Africa & the Middle East · 1

SasabonsamWildwood · Ghana · Côte d'IvoireA forest being in Akan lore, often described with iron teeth and a taste for those who enter the deep woods carelessly. Part of a wider West African forest-warning tradition.

South Asia · 1

PetniRevenant · Bangladesh · IndiaIn Bengali folklore, a petni is the ghost of a woman who died outside the expected order—often in childbirth, pregnancy, or menstruation, or with desires left unfinished. Related to, but kept distinct from, shakchunni (married wife with shankha) and the wider South Asian churel.