Drowned person cannot rest in peace. (Cf. E334.4.)

Motif

Drowned person cannot rest in peace. (Cf. E334.4.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E414

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
Finnish-SwedishWessman 5 No. 40.
general Fb "spøgelse" III 521b
general Kristensen Danske Sagn V (1897) 90ff., 359ff., (1934) 70ff., 265ff.

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.

1 finer motif beneath it

Person otherwise killed by accident cannot rest in grave

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 Murdered person cannot rest in grave. (C.f. all references to E231, E334, E337.1.1, E337.3.)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 suicide seen at death spot or near by. (Cf. E411.1.1, E431.16.)

wander