Ghost killed and thus finally laid

Motif

Ghost killed and thus finally laid.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E446

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

EskimoKroeber JAFL XII 181, (Greenland): Holm 55, Rasmussen III 182.
general N. Am. Indian (Sioux): Dorsey RBAE XI 491f., (Fox): Jones PAES I 101 No. 7, (Osage): Dorsey FM VII 26 No. 21

Within the index

Filed under Walking ghost "laid".

5 finer motifs beneath it

Corpse magically killed and laid Ghost laid by burning body Ghost laid by decapitating body Slain ghost carried off by other ghosts Ghost laid by pushing it into water

Filed beside it

Ghost laid by reburial Ghost laid by piercing grave (corpse) with stake. (Cf. D712.10, E431.16.2.)Ghost exorcized and laid Ghost laid by talisman Ghost laid by barring off 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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