Mass (church service) of the dead. Held at midnight

Motif

Mass (church service) of the dead. Held at midnight.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Meetings of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E492

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Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

DanishKristensen Danske Sagn II (1895) 280ff., (1928) 176ff.
NorwegianSolheim Register 17
IcelandicBoberg
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3558
Jewish*Neuman
New YorkJones JAFL LVII 242.
general *BP III 472, 545
general Krappe Balor 116ff., 121 n. 11, JAFL LX 159ff.
general *Fb "død" I 228a, "kirke" II 125b
general *Grunwald Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXX–XXXI 316

Within the index

Filed under Meetings of the dead.

Filed beside it

Procession of the dead Dead men dance Ball game in lower world. (Cf. E577.1.)Wedding of the dead Ghosts gathered on a bridge Fighting warriors show the way of their past life and of their death Meetings of the dead – miscellaneous

Travels with

Knockers hold midnight mass deep in mines on Christmas Eve. (Cf. E492.)Werwolves hold mass. (Cf. D113.1.1, E492, G243.)

Carried in tale types

Mass of the Dead · ATU 779F*3 recorded variants

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