Return from dead to do penance — Mythoi

Motif

Return from dead to do penance.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E411.0.2.1

Filed across the traditions

U.S. Baughman.
general Alphabet Nos. 363, 616. Lithuanian: *Balys Ghosts

Within the index

Filed under Unquiet dead sinner taken to priest for absolution.

Filed beside it

Unconfessed person cannot rest in grave

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Ghost laid when penance is done. (Cf. E411.0.2.1.)

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