Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial — Mythoi

Motif

Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial.

Religion. · Religious services. · Funeral rites. · view the constellation · filed as V64

Cited in the index

general Child III 342, IV 506.

Within the index

Filed under Funeral rites.

1 finer motif beneath it

Shipwrecked each get a piece of the chief's gold ring in order to have gold with them in death

Filed beside it

Stones sold at funeral wakes Funeral rites by druids Various ways of disposing of dead Restrictions on burial Bones of dismembered person assembled and buried. (Cf. E30.) Commemoration of death Funeral sermon Accompaniments of burial. (Cf. V61.3.0.1.) Preparations for burial Funeral rites – miscellaneous

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