Thompson E412.3.3: Dead man asks for shoes (was buried without them).

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E412.3.3 is “Dead man asks for shoes (was buried without them).” The source explicitly states that this dead woman was buried without shoes, returns to ask why she has none, describes the painful unshod journey, and continues returning nightly. The candidate’s word “man” can be read as generic “person” in Thompson’s condensed motif label, but its literal sex wording also admits a male-specific reading; that genuine catalogue-language ambiguity lowers certainty to possible. E412.3’s full entry is “Dead without proper funeral rites cannot rest”; the missing footwear and recurrent return match its burial-rite context. The broader E412 prefix says a person under religious ban cannot rest, but E412.3 explicitly changes to improper funeral rites, so no religious-ban condition is imported.

• „der hatte man keine Schuhe mit ins Grab gegeben, wie dies gewöhnlich geschicht.“
• „Warum habt ihr mir keine Schuhe angelegt ? Ich muß durch Disteln und Dornen und über spißige Steine. "“
• „der Geist kehrte während sechs Wochen jede Nacht zurück, um den Säugling zu stillen .“