Unbaptized person cannot rest in grave — Mythoi

Motif

Unbaptized person cannot rest in grave.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E412.2

Filed across the traditions

Irish Beal XXI 315, O'Suilleabhain 41
England Baughman
Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3557.
general *Fb "udøbt" III 960a
general Tobler 47

Within the index

Filed under Person under religious ban cannot rest in grave.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Unchristened person cannot rest in grave nor enter heaven Mother of unbaptized child cannot rest in grave

Filed beside it

Excommunicated person cannot rest in grave Dead without proper funeral rites cannot rest Child cursed by father cannot rest in grave Ghost of church desecrator cannot rest

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