Other exorcism practices — Mythoi

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Other exorcism practices.

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

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Filed under Walking ghost "laid".

7 finer motifs beneath it

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

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

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