Dead cannot rest until certain work is finished

Motif

Dead cannot rest until certain work is finished.

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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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

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.

U.S.Baughman (E354)
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 679
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 245
West IndiesFlowers 430.

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.

4 finer motifs beneath 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.)Dead cannot rest until money debts are paid. (C.f. E351.)

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.)Drowned person cannot rest in peace. (Cf. E334.4.)Man who removes landmarks cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E345.1.)Dead person speaks from grave Other restless dead

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