Beheaded man's head laid at feet to prevent return

Motif

Beheaded man's head laid at feet to prevent return.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Defense against ghosts and the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E431.7

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 252.
general *Fb "hoved" I 655b

Within the index

Filed under Precautions at funeral against revenant.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Beheaded man's head laid at back to prevent return Decapitating in order to prevent return

Filed beside it

Test for presence of demons in corpses Burial service read into hat to prevent dead walking Water thrown on corpse to prevent return Mould thrown on corpse to prevent return Coffin carried through hole in wall to prevent return of dead Limbs of dead fettered to prevent return Turf laid on breast of dead to prevent return Dog buried alive to prevent ghosts from walking Ashes of dead thrown on water to prevent return Corpse buried under stone so that sun will not shine on him again Coin placed in mouth of dead to prevent return Pins stuck in soles of dead man's feet to prevent return Corpse burned to prevent return Tall wall around grave to prevent return People touch corpse before burial to avoid seeing ghost of dead person after burial Burial of suicide to prevent walking. (Cf. E334.7, E411.1.1, E441.)

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