Ghost laid by reburial

Motif

Ghost laid by reburial.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

IcelandicBoberg
EstonianAarne FFC XXV 115 No. 12
FinnishAarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 12
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3590
U.S.Baughman. Cf. Gaster Exempla 222 No. 175.

Within the index

Filed under Walking ghost "laid".

3 finer motifs beneath it

Ghost laid when leg is buried Ghost laid by placing stones in throat of the corpse Corpse exhumed and heart cremated to lay ghost

Filed beside it

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

Travels with

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

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