Ghost demands a body and soul before it will agree to be laid. Monk provides cock and sole of shoe

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Ghost demands a body and soul before it will agree to be laid. Monk provides cock and sole of shoe.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Walking ghost "laid". · view the constellation · filed as E459.1

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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.

EnglandBaughman.

Within the index

Filed under Other exorcism practices.

Filed beside it

Ghost laid when bones are brought to home country from foreign soil Ghost laid when its wishes are acceded to Ghost bound and jailed Ghost laid at midnight Ghost laid by burying bell from church in one pond, the clapper in another. If the two ever come together again, the ghost can walk Ghost laid when his skull is thrown into the Ganges

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Man cheats devil by giving him sole instead of soul. (Cf. E459.1.)

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