Suicide buried at crossroads. (Cf. E434.4.)

Motif

Suicide buried at crossroads. (Cf. E434.4.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Defense against ghosts and the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E431.16.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 Burial of suicide to prevent walking. (Cf. E334.7, E411.1.1, E441.)

Filed beside it

Suicide buried head (or face) downward. (If corpse moves it. only goes deeper into ground.)Suicide buried with stake through heart (body). (Cf. E442.)

Travels with

Ghosts cannot pass crossroads. (Cf. E431.16, E431.17.)

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