FFC 90
750—849 Religious tale.
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of his sons die on St. Joseph's Day. Father quits paying for masses. St. Joseph appears to him and shows him how two sons that died would have dishonored father. Third son lives and becomes a saint). | |
| 760. | an 1. FA p. 185 (Woman kills her children and disappears. Her body on fire and followed by children is seen at night. Her father's benediction causes the spectacle to disappear). as 1. BTPE VIII 125 (After masses are said corpse does not appear again). 2. LRAF p. 107 no 1 (Two brothers promise to make a pilgrimage. One dies. Other sees his brother's ghost which instructs him to fulfill their promise and ghost will accompany him). 3. LRAF p. 108 no 2 (Rich man steals neighbor's property by moving landmarks. He dies and his ghost appears and asks help to move boundarymarks back to their proper place). 4. LRAF p. 108 no 3 (Man appears to shepherd and asks him to tear man's garment with his staff. Garment becomes flame and man disappears). |
| *A. | Youth attacks holy woman and then murders her. He flees and approaches a monastery. A pilgrim appears and tells him to enter the monastery, confess and he will be saved. He enters the monastery and leads an exemplary life but dies without confessing his sin. His corpse is found unburied. It instructs monks to remove holy wafer from its mouth and to bury it in unhallowed ground. x 1. TLS p. 75. |
| *B. | Wicked rich man dies. Two men come and have priest hold chalice to corpse's mouth while they press on its neck and host falls out. Devils carry away corpse. as 1. LRAC no 27. |
| *C. | Man or woman pays for mass for dead or assists phantom priest to say mass and thereby frees soul |
