Ghost laid when vow is fulfilled. (Cf. E415.3.) — Mythoi

Motif

Ghost laid when vow is fulfilled. (Cf. E415.3.)

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E451.3

Filed across the traditions

Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 336 s. v. "Geister, Erlösung"
Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn V (1897) 266ff., (1934) 196ff.
Icelandic Boberg
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Ghost finds rest when certain thing happens.

Filed beside it

Ghost laid when crime has been confessed. (Cf. E412.5.) Ghost laid when penance is done. (Cf. E411.0.2.1.) 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Ghost of priest cannot rest because he failed to say certain masses for the dead. (Cf. E341.3, Q521.6.)

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