Motif
Restless dead body part quieted by parental discipline
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Burial Vigils and Corpse-Restraint Rites. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm SECOND STORY / FIRST STORY / SECOND STORY / THIRD STORY; lines 16472-16558 confidence: high
After burial, the child’s arm repeatedly rises from the grave; the mother strikes it with a rod, the arm withdraws, and the child rests underground.
The child’s arm repeatedly rises from the grave until the mother strikes it with a rod, after which the child rests beneath the ground.
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