Other restless dead

Motif

Other restless dead.

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

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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.

EnglandBaughman.

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.

12 finer motifs beneath 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.)Person with missing bodily member cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E235.)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

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.)Dead cannot rest until certain work is finished Man who removes landmarks cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E345.1.)Dead person speaks from grave

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