Return from dead to punish disturber of grave

Motif

Return from dead to punish disturber of grave.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E235.6

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Jewishbin Gorion II 160, 348, 360, Neuman.
general England, U.S.: Baughman

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Ghost punishes person who mocks him Ghost returns to demand proper burial 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 the dead to capture thief Corpse of saint sits up and looks at people who open grave and come to claim his body

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