Walking ghost "laid"

Motif

Walking ghost "laid".

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E440

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

IrishBeal XXI 332
Icelandic*Boberg
SpanishBoggs FFC XC 53 No. 400A*
EstonianAarne FFC XXV 114 No. 6.
general *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 324
general *v. Negelein ibid. XIV 20ff.

Within the index

12 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost laid by reburial Ghost laid by piercing grave (corpse) with stake. (Cf. D712.10, E431.16.2.)Ghost exorcized and laid Ghost laid by talisman Ghost laid by barring off Ghost killed and thus finally laid Ghost finds rest when certain thing happens Ghost laid at cockcrow (dawn)Ghost transformed into animal. (Cf. D100, E423.)Ghost is laid by giving it a never-ending or impossible task. (Cf. H900, H1010.)Man raises corpses and gets their shrouds, then "lays" them again Other exorcism practices

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