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

Motif

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

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Return from dead to repay obligation. · view the constellation · filed as E341.1

Filed across the traditions

Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 299 No. 13
Jewish bin Gorion I 176, 374, V 76, 299, VI 224, 316
India Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian (Thompson River) Teit JE VIII 385 No. 93.
general *Types 505–508
general **Liljeblad Die Tobiasgeschichte und andere Märchen mit toten Helfern
general *BP III 490ff.
general Köhler-Bolte I 5, 222ff., 424
general **Gerould The Grateful Dead (London, 1908)
general *Goebel Jüdische Motive in märchenhaftem Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 38ff.
general *Fb "lig" II 412b, "død" I 228a. – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "mort"

Within the index

Filed under The grateful dead.

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Dead grateful for food Dead grateful for prayers Dead grateful for clothes (shirt) Grateful priest returns to save gambler from devil

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