Dead cannot rest until money debts are paid. (C.f. E351.) — Mythoi

Motif

Dead cannot rest until money debts are paid. (C.f. E351.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E415.4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK III, ch. V

Filed across the traditions

U.S. Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Dead cannot rest until certain work is finished.

Filed beside it

Ghost returns to hunt lost article 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.)

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