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• Origin of funeral customs. A1547
• Origin of funeral sacrifices. (Cf. A1545.) A1547.1
• Origin of lute-playing at funerals. A1547.2
• Birds take part at saint's funeral. B251.2.12
• Animal funeral. B257
• Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. D1715.2
• Person sees phantom funeral procession some time before the actual procession takes place. D1825.7.1
• Sounds heard before death; the sounds are later repeated in connection with the death or funeral. D1827.1.2
• Resuscitation through ashes thrown on funeral pyre. E132
• Dead man speaks demanding proper funeral rites. E235.2.1
• Dead without proper funeral rites cannot rest. E412.3
• Precautions at funeral against revenant. E431
• Ghost light indicates route funeral will take. (Cf. D1825.7.1.) E530.1.7
• Smoke from funeral fires of two lovers mingles in sky. E643.1
• Extraordinary funeral pyre. F882.1
• Winter's day changes to summer's day at saint's funeral. F960.2.6
• Sun shines but two hours the day of hero's funeral. F960.2.6.1
• Blood of brother and sister (and smoke from their funeral pyres) refuses to mingle. F1075
• Suitor's sincerity tested by reporting girl's death. All but one make excuses for not helping with funeral. H314.1
• King: What are your mother and father doing? Girl: Mother is separating earth (being a midwife), and father is mixing earth (at a funeral). H583.4.5
• Angel explains to hermit why God lets a sinner die in peace and have big funeral while holy hermit is slain by a wild beast. J225.0.1.1
• Evil mother has fine funeral, good father poor. J225.8
• The funeral for the ineligible husband. A king awards a young woman to a gardener, who is already married. The young woman performs a funeral ceremony for him. The king is pleased with the jest and takes her into the harem. J1191.3
• Will spend the funeral money now. King asks how much his funeral will cost. "Give me the three hundred ducats now and when I am dead throw me into the Tiber." J1261.5
• Priest may use his own mother's mass money. At his mother's funeral a boy takes the money laid on the altar for masses. When the priest objects, the boy says, "When your mother dies you may take the money too." J1261.6
• Unequal returns. Man at his lady's funeral says to priest: "You enjoy them when they are young and then give them to us to bury. J1264.8
• "I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.) J1802.1
• Numskull prepares brother's wedding (father's funeral). On the way home from town he destroys his purchases. (Cf. J1851, J1856, J1871.) J1846
• Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her. J1959.2
• The dead man in spite of himself. Neighbors who have heard of the numskull's death insist on the funeral although he is alive and well. He is persuaded and is carried on a bier. They meet a busy man whom they try to persuade to join them. He pleads business. The "dead" man speaks: "It's no use, friend, to try to dissuade them." J2311.5
• Wager as to who shall rise (speak) first in morning (last up to get reward). They are carried to funeral pyre before they will give in. J2511.1
• Thieves steal chickens and have mock funeral to cover theft. K375
• Dupe tricked into jumping on supposed funeral pyre of beloved. K891.4
• False message from other world causes man to go on funeral pyre. K929.12
• Seduction by feigned death. The girl comes to the man's wake or funeral. K1325
• Return home to one's own funeral. N681.0.1
• King's son comes home just at his father's funeral, when the heritage has to be divided. N699.2
• King must never be present at funeral. P13.8
• King on retiring orders funeral obsequies given him. P16.1.1
• Woman cast on husband's funeral pyre as punishment. Q414.6
• Three lovers mourn for dead girl: one throws himself into her funeral pyre; another gathers together the ashes and vows to spend his life sitting upon them; third resolves to turn fakir. T92.14
• Wife throws herself on husband's funeral pyre. T211.2.1
• Girl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his body. T211.7
• Faithless widow betrothed anew at husband's funeral. T231.1
• Fool laughs at the absurdities he sees about him. (1) Sees a man who is to die that day buy shoes. (2) Sees sheriff leading a man to the gallows: a big thief leading a little one. (3) Sees farmer weeping at funeral of his child, while priest (the real father) sings. U15
• At a funeral of a child a satyr reveals that the real father (officiating priest) sings while the cuckold weeps. (Cf. U15.) U119.1.1
• Human sacrifice in connection with funeral. (Cf. S260.1.) V11.6.1
• Animal sacrifice in connection with funeral. V11.6.2
• Funeral rites. V60
• Stones sold at funeral wakes. V60.1
• Funeral rites by druids. V60.2
• Funeral rites forbidden. V62.1
• Wedding and funeral festival on same time. V65.3
• Funeral song sung over dead. V65.4.1
• Funeral games. V65.5
• Funeral sermon. V66
• Witty funeral sermon. Priest having nothing good to say about man damns him with faint praise or gives anecdotes with unfavorable implications. (Cf. K1961.1.2.1.) V66.1
• Funeral rites – miscellaneous. V69
• Angels attend saint's funeral. V241.1
• Lazy man misses seeing the sheriff's funeral; he is facing the wrong way as the procession passes. W111.5.11
• Wood dealer prays for raja's death so that he can sell sandal wood for funeral pyre. W153.13
• Doctor called to attend sick man immediately gives orders for the funeral. X372.5
• A bad year for priests: few funerals. All but the priest rejoice over the good health of the community. He bemoans his loss of income from burials. X427
• The funeral procession of the hen. Animals one by one join the procession. The funeral carriage breaks down or the procession drowns. Z32.1