μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Corpse exhumed and heart cremated to lay ghost.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E441.3

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.

  • general Africa (Bena Makuni): Torrend Specimens of Bantu Folklore 72.
Within the index

Filed under Ghost laid by reburial.

Filed beside it
Ghost laid when leg is buried Ghost laid by placing stones in throat of the corpse

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