Dead grateful for having been spared indignity to corpse. Kind man has given it burial

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Dead grateful for having been spared indignity to corpse. Kind man has given it burial.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Return from dead to repay obligation. · view the constellation · filed as E341.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

U.S.Baughman
Italian NovellaRotunda
IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Dead grateful for having corpse ransomed. Corpse is being held unburied because of nonpayment of debts. Hero pays debt and secures burial of corpse.

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