If no lamp is lighted in a house for a period of fourteen days, ghosts take it for their dwelling

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If no lamp is lighted in a house for a period of fourteen days, ghosts take it for their dwelling.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Miscellaneous actions of revenants. · view the constellation · filed as E593.3

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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.

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Filed under Ghost takes things from people.

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Ghost steals collar of priest. Evil therefore befalls priest Ghost steals book from priest Ghost takes bones from grave Ghost steals food and treasure

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