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Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Lithuanian Balys 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Disenchantment by driving stake through body Suicide buried with stake through heart (body). (Cf. E442.)

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