Ghost laid when crime has been confessed. (Cf. E412.5.)

Motif

Ghost laid when crime has been confessed. (Cf. E412.5.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E451.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Fb "løse" II 517a.

Within the index

Filed under Ghost finds rest when certain thing happens.

1 finer motif beneath it

Corpse cannot be laid until after he has confided the secret of magic charms

Filed beside it

Ghost laid when penance is done. (Cf. E411.0.2.1.)Ghost laid when vow is fulfilled. (Cf. E415.3.)Ghost laid when living man speaks to it Ghost laid when treasure is unearthed Beggar's ghost laid when pig bought with money taken from him is brought to his grave. Sinks in grave Bearded woman ghost laid by shaving her Ghost laid when house it haunts is destroyed or changed Ghost laid when revenge is accomplished Ghost laid when rest of poem is recited

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Ghost of church desecrator cannot rest

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