Man raises corpses and gets their shrouds, then "lays" them again

Motif

Man raises corpses and gets their shrouds, then "lays" them again.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E456

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Walking ghost "laid".

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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 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.)Other exorcism practices

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