Corpses thrown in water to prevent return

Motif

Corpses thrown in water to prevent return.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Defense against ghosts and the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E431.9.2

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.

Icelandic *Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Ashes of dead thrown on water to prevent return.

Filed beside it

Head of corpse thrown on water to prevent return

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