μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Unquiet dead sinner taken to priest for absolution.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E411.0.2

Cited in the index
  • general Type 760
  • general Alphabet Nos. 17, 178, 303, 331, 337.
Within the index

Filed under Dead cannot rest because of sin.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Return from dead to do penance Unconfessed person cannot rest in grave
Filed beside it
Hand of sinner sticks out of grave Horse unable to draw evil dead man Sinner wanders between earth and heaven Other dead drive sinner from graveyard Earth rejects buried body. (Cf. V62.1.) Demons cast evil man from grave leaving only his shroud Saint's body miraculously moves so that it is laid properly north and south, not northeast and southwest Murderer cannot rest in grave Adulterous person cannot rest in grave Perjurer cannot rest in grave Usurer cannot rest in grave Swindler cannot rest in grave Person who never said "good morning" cannot rest in grave Monk who dies without his cowl cannot rest in grave Pilate appears periodically at Mt. Pilatus and washes his hands Magician who has sold his soul to the devil hires his servant to bury him properly: the coffin bursts. (Cf. E261.2.1.)
Carried in tale types

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