Coffin buried upright — Mythoi

Motif

Coffin buried upright.

Religion. · Religious services. · Funeral rites. · view the constellation · filed as V61.3

Filed across the traditions

Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "cercueil".

Within the index

Filed under Various ways of disposing of dead.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Hero buried in armor, standing with face toward land of enemies. (Cf. V67.) Person buried in standing position with friends about him Man buried upright beneath kitchen stairway in order that he may watch his family

Filed beside it

Dead placed on boat Dead burned on pyre. (Cremation.) Head buried one place, body another King buried in his war car Christian buried in stone coffin Christian buried in wooden coffin Burial in grave-mound Lion buried in stone cave with gold letters Corpses exposed in tree Aversion to burial in "strange city"

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