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Motifs
- Tabu: looking over cemetery walls, lest one see ghosts. C334
- Tabu: sleeping in cemetery. C735.2.5
- Light moving toward cemetery as sign of death. (Cf. D1162.) D1322.2
- Dead move when cemetery is moved. E419.4
- Cannibals live at cemetery. G18.1
- Thief frightens priest as the latter crosses cemetery. Meanwhile a confederate steals his chickens. K335.0.5.2
- Lazy man is being taken to poorhouse or out of town or to cemetery to be buried alive. The group take pity on him, offer him various articles to help him get started again. One offers a bushel of corn. The lazy one rises up from the bottom of the wagon or coffin where he has been lying: "Is the corn shelled?" W111.5.10.1
- The devil in the cemetery. A sexton hears thieves in the cemetery cracking nuts and thinks it is the devil cracking bones. With the gouty parson on his back he comes upon the thieves who, thinking it is their companion with the sheep, call out, "Is he fat?" The sexton: "Fat or lean, here he is!" X424
- Lie: place so healthful that residents shoot man to start cemetery. X1663.2