μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Adulterous person cannot rest in grave.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E411.2

Filed across the traditions
  • English Wells 61 (Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne), Baughman
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 228
Within the index

Filed under Dead cannot rest because of sin.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Priest's concubine cannot rest in grave The devil's concubine haunts after her death
Filed beside it
Hand of sinner sticks out of grave Unquiet dead sinner taken to priest for absolution 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 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.)

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