Ghost returns to demand proper burial

Motif

Ghost returns to demand proper burial.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E235.2

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish*Cross, Baughman
JewishNeuman
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 199.
general Fb "lig" II 411b

Within the index

Filed under Return from dead to punish indignities to corpse, or ghost.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Dead man speaks demanding proper funeral rites Ghost returns because corpse was not properly burned

Filed beside it

Ghost punishes person who mocks him Return from dead as punishment for trying to raise ghost. (Cf. E384ff., F491.7.) Ghost accuses man of stealing a trifle and thus has revenge Return from dead to punish theft of part of corpse. (Cf. E419.7.)Return from dead to punish kicking of skull. (Cf. C13.)Return from dead to punish disturber of grave Return from the dead to capture thief Corpse of saint sits up and looks at people who open grave and come to claim his body

Travels with

Soul cannot enter heaven till body is buried. (Cf. E235.2.)

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