Dead grateful for prayers

Motif

Dead grateful for prayers.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Friendly return from the dead. · Return from dead to repay obligation. · view the constellation · filed as E341.3

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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IrishO'Suilleabhain 102, Baughman.
general Tatlock MPh XXII 211f.
general Alphabet Nos. 18, 519, 587
general Nouvelles de Sens No. 15

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Dead grateful for having corpse ransomed. Corpse is being held unburied because of nonpayment of debts. Hero pays debt and secures burial of corpse Dead grateful for food Dead grateful for clothes (shirt)Grateful priest returns to save gambler from devil

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Ghost of priest cannot rest because he failed to say certain masses for the dead. (Cf. E341.3, Q521.6.)

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