Unbaptized person cannot rest in grave

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

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IrishBeal XXI 315, O'Suilleabhain 41
EnglandBaughman
LithuanianBalys 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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