The constellation
E230 Return from dead to inflict punishment
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- Return from dead to reveal murder · E231 entry
- Return from the dead to slay wicked person · E232 entry
- Ghost punishes injury received in life · E234 entry
- Return from dead to punish indignities to corpse, or ghost · E235 entry
- Return from dead to demand stolen property · E236 entry
- Dinner with the dead. Dead man is invited to dinner. Takes his host to other world · E238 entry
- Ghosts punish intruders into ghost town · E241 entry
- Ghosts punish intruders into mass (procession) of ghosts · E242 entry
- Ghosts attack bishop who has suspended priest for singing for all Christian souls · E243 entry
- Ghosts punish failure to provide for their wants. Haunt man because he does not leave food and drink for them · E245 entry
- Ghosts punish failure to sacrifice to them · E246 entry
- Ghost kills man who had had ghost exorcised for too short a time · E247 entry