Ghost laid when treasure is unearthed

Motif

Ghost laid when treasure is unearthed.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E451.5

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda (cf. E371ff.).
general Fb "løse" II 517b

Within the index

Filed under Ghost finds rest when certain thing happens.

1 finer motif beneath it

Money must be distributed to beggars so that ghost may be laid

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 vow is fulfilled. (Cf. E415.3.)Ghost laid when living man speaks to it 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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