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

Motif

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

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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.

Icelandic*Boberg
Irish mythCross
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3546B, Legends No. 698, Ghosts
S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 686.
general *Fb "pæl" II 904ab, "jærn" II 61a
general England, U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Walking ghost "laid".

2 finer motifs beneath it

Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree Ghost laid by burial outside village on far side of stream, with four iron nails driven into the corners of the grave

Filed beside it

Ghost laid by reburial 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

Disenchantment by driving stake through body Suicide buried with stake through heart (body). (Cf. E442.)

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