Dead without proper funeral rites cannot rest

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

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Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

GreekFox 145
Finnish-SwedishWessman 3 No. 25
JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys
HawaiiBeckwith 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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