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Motif

Ghost laid at cockcrow (dawn).

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E452

Filed across the traditions
  • Scotch Campbell Tales II 94–112 passim
  • English Child II 228, V 294
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian (Seneca) Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 96 No. 7, (Teton): Dorsey AA o.s. II (1889) 151.
  • general Fb "spøgelse" III 519b, "kok" IV 272b
  • general Köhler-Bolte III 581
  • general Wimberly 248. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "coq"
  • general Finnish, Swedish: Wessman 1 No. 6
  • general Melanesian, Polynesian: *Dixon 141 n. 24
  • general Kai (German New Guinea): ibid. 144
Within the index

Filed under Walking ghost "laid".

2 finer motifs beneath it
Dead quiescent during day Ghost invisible during day
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 killed and thus finally laid Ghost finds rest when certain thing happens 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Gods flee at approach of dawn. (Cf. E452.) Stone moves at cock-crow. (Cf. E452, N555.1.) Ghosts walk from curfew to cockcrow. (Cf. E452.) Familiar comes at nightfall and disappears at cockcrow. (Cf. E452.) Series: white cock, red cock, black cock. These crow at dawn and scatter ghosts. (Cf. E452.)
Carried in tale types

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