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E545 The dead speak
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- Words uttered from the tomb · E545.0.1 entry
- The dead are silent · E545.0.2 entry
- Conversation between the dead · E545.1 entry
- Dead predict death. (Cf. E363.3.) · E545.2 entry
- Dead announce own death. (Cf. E723ff.) · E545.3 entry
- Dead will not speak of their condition · E545.4 entry
- Questions to dead are dangerous · E545.5 entry
- Dead speak on Hallowe'en. (Cf. V70.5.) · E545.6 entry
- Holy man converses with entombed dead · E545.7 entry
- Fairy converses with dead · E545.8 entry
- Dead holy man begs grave-digger not to bury sinner on top of him · E545.9 entry
- Corpse exclaims over miracle · E545.10 entry
- Ghost chooses own requiem · E545.11 entry
- Ghost directs man to hidden treasure · E545.12 entry
- Man converses with dead · E545.13 entry
- The dead hear saint's bell. (Cf. D1213.) · E545.14 entry
- Saint after his death gives directions where he wants to be buried · E545.15 entry
- Dead predict calamity or disaster · E545.16 entry
- The dead foretell the future. (Cf. E363.3, E576.) · E545.17 entry
- Ghost asks to be taken to former home. (C.f. all references to E332.3.3.1.) · E545.18 entry
- Addressing the dead · E545.19 entry
- Part of ghost speaks · E545.20 entry
- Heads of slain people in magician's house advises hero · E545.21 entry
- Conversation between God and Adam's corpse · E545.22 entry
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