Ghost laid by reburial — Mythoi

Motif

Ghost laid by reburial.

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

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 115 No. 12
Finnish Aarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 12
Lithuanian Balys 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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

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