μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Dead without proper funeral rites cannot rest.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E412.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Greek Fox 145
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 3 No. 25
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 123
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen II 342.
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 228ff.
  • general Fb "spøgelse" III 521b
  • general Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Person under religious ban cannot rest in grave.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Dead man comes back because he was buried without a cap Naked ghost asks for shirt and promises luck on market for man Dead man asks for shoes (was buried without them)
Filed beside it
Excommunicated person cannot rest in grave Unbaptized person cannot rest in grave Child cursed by father cannot rest in grave Ghost of church desecrator cannot rest

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