Person with missing bodily member cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E235.) — Mythoi

Motif

Person with missing bodily member cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E235.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · The unquiet grave. · view the constellation · filed as E419.7

Filed across the traditions

U.S. *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Other restless dead.

Filed beside it

Soul wanders and demands that a temple be built for him Dead find no rest since someone daily knocks at grave Dead find no rest since grass is pulled on grave Dead move when cemetery is moved Dead arise when one plays organ for first time in church Lovers buried apart found in one grave each morning. (Cf. E631.0.1.) Ghost returns to enforce its burial wishes or to protest disregard of them Ghost flits between two graves reputed to contain body Concern of ghost about belongings of its lifetime People who bury metal cannot rest in grave Fate of ghosts of persons eaten by tigers

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Return from dead to punish indignities to corpse, or ghost Return from dead to punish theft of part of corpse. (Cf. E419.7.)

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