Ghost exorcized and laid — Mythoi

Motif

Ghost exorcized and laid.

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

Filed across the traditions

Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 115 No. 11
Finnish Aarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 11
Finnish-Swedish Wessman 7 No. 51, 27 No. 243
New York Jones JAFL LVII 251
West Indies Flowers 430.
general *Fb "bande" IV 24a, "Jesus" II 41a
general Tobler 65

Within the index

Filed under Walking ghost "laid".

11 finer motifs beneath it

Laying ghost causes great storm. (Cf. D2141.) Protection during ghost-laying ceremony Ghost laid by blessing grave Ghost laid by prayer Ghosts exorcized by name Ghost laid by raising a cross Ghost laid by adjuring it to leave "in the name of God." Ghost laid by baptizing children in its presence Ghost laid by fasting Ghost laid by Bible Ghost laid by consecrated water

Filed beside it

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

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