Ghost laid by saying masses

Motif

Ghost laid by saying masses.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E443.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

IrishO'Suilleabhain 95, 99, Beal XXI 330, 332
ScotchMacdougall and Calder 319
EnglishWells 61 (Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne)
U.S.Baughman (E341.3.2).

Within the index

Filed under Ghost laid by prayer.

1 finer motif beneath it

The dead man: "Sell my golden teeth and pay for a mass for my soul."

Filed beside it

Ghost laid by formulistic prayer Ghost laid by confessor to priest Ghost laid by priest (minister)

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