The constellation
E411 Dead cannot rest because of sin
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- Hand of sinner sticks out of grave · E411.0.1 entry
- Unquiet dead sinner taken to priest for absolution · E411.0.2 entry
- Horse unable to draw evil dead man · E411.0.3 entry
- Sinner wanders between earth and heaven · E411.0.4 entry
- Other dead drive sinner from graveyard · E411.0.5 entry
- Earth rejects buried body. (Cf. V62.1.) · E411.0.6 entry
- Demons cast evil man from grave leaving only his shroud · E411.0.7 entry
- Saint's body miraculously moves so that it is laid properly north and south, not northeast and southwest · E411.0.8 entry
- Murderer cannot rest in grave · E411.1 entry
- Adulterous person cannot rest in grave · E411.2 entry
- Perjurer cannot rest in grave · E411.3 entry
- Usurer cannot rest in grave · E411.4 entry
- Swindler cannot rest in grave · E411.5 entry
- Person who never said "good morning" cannot rest in grave · E411.6 entry
- Monk who dies without his cowl cannot rest in grave · E411.7 entry
- Pilate appears periodically at Mt. Pilatus and washes his hands · E411.8 entry
- Magician who has sold his soul to the devil hires his servant to bury him properly: the coffin bursts. (Cf. E261.2.1.) · E411.9 entry
- Persons who die violent or accidental deaths cannot rest in grave · E411.10 entry