Ghost laid by burial outside village on far side of stream, with four iron nails driven into the corners of the grave

Motif

Ghost laid by burial outside village on far side of stream, with four iron nails driven into the corners of the grave.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E442.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Ghost laid by piercing grave (corpse) with stake. (Cf. D712.10, E431.16.2.)

Filed beside it

Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree

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