Ghost returns to hunt lost article

Motif

Ghost returns to hunt lost article.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E415.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 3 No. 24
U.S.*Baughman (E328).

Within the index

Filed under Dead cannot rest until certain work is finished.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost unlaid until iron he hid in life is found Return from dead to uncover secretly buried treasure

Filed beside it

Dead rich man returns to rebuke his children who have kept the money he promised to the church Ghost of priest cannot rest because he failed to say certain masses for the dead. (Cf. E341.3, Q521.6.)Dead cannot rest until money debts are paid. (C.f. E351.)

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