Murdered person cannot rest in grave. (C.f. all references to E231, E334, E337.1.1, E337.3.)

Motif

Murdered person cannot rest in grave. (C.f. all references to E231, E334, E337.1.1, E337.3.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E413

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

North CarolinaBrown Collection I 682
Finnish-SwedishWessman 5 Nos. 37–38
general *Fb "spøgelse" III 521a, "gjenganger" I 443b
general Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 323
general Tobler 47
general England, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman
general Kristensen Danske Sagn V (1897) 102ff., 334ff., (1934) 78ff., 252ff.

Within the index

Filed under The unquiet grave. (Cf. D2151.1.2.3.) Dead unable to rest in peace. Aside from the references given in the numbers immediately following, see E200–E399 passim.

Filed beside it

Ground trembles or rumbles when ghost rises from grave Ghost shakes off earth when he rises from grave Dead cannot rest because of sin Person under religious ban cannot rest in grave Drowned person cannot rest in peace. (Cf. E334.4.)Dead cannot rest until certain work is finished Man who removes landmarks cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E345.1.)Dead person speaks from grave Other restless dead

Travels with

Ghost of murdered person haunts burial spot. (Cf. E413.)

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