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Tubach Frederic C., 1969. Index exemplorum. A Handbook of medieval religious tales, Helsinki.:

• #2944 (Var. A) : Knight, dead, return of. (Var.) a) Knight, dead, almsgiving of. A condemned knight appeared after death to his wife and told her that almsgiving had done him no good. Alpha # 300; CHeist-XII #19; H494 # 193, H525 # 95; Recull # 258. b) Knight, dead, atones for rape. A dead knight appears to his former master and says that he has been restored to life to atone for a rape committed in his last campaign. H494 # 190, H52 7 # 113. c) Knight, dead, returns for confession. 1) The body of a knight is carried into a chapel that he had built in honor of the Virgin. At the elevation of the Host he revives; at the end of the mass, he confesses a mortal sin. H386 # 215. 2) A knight devoted to St. Mary Magdalene is killed in battle but revives to make confession. Alpha # 458; H603 # 72; Recull # 400. d) Knight, dead, returns for prayers. A dead knight returns to ask a living knight to pray for him; the latter promises to do so he will ask God to pray for him. Alpha # 734; Recull # 653. e) Knight, dead, returns for wedding. Two knights promise one another that neither will marry without the other’s presence. One of them is killed in battle; the other announces his approaching marriage at his comrade’s tomb, and the dead knight attends the wedding. H503 # 3. f) Knight, dead, returns from hell. 1) A vain knight appeared after death with scabrous legs, a huge toad in his body and vermin on his genitals punishments for crimes of pride and fornication. libri8-I #44 . 2) Harnessed to a black horse and carrying a clod of earth, a knight appears after death to a friend. He tells his friend that he had deprived a widow of the harness and taken land unjustly. Seelentrost (German) 144; 1; Thrøst (Swed.) 216, 23. 3) A knight, revived from the dead, appeared on a black horse and asked his children to return unjustly gained goods and land since they weighed on him too heavily. Seelentrost (German) 258, 7. 4) A dead knight appears to a comrade and says that he is in torment for having robbed a man in a cemetery. EdeB # 34; H96 # 39; H280 # 14, H310 # 12, H318 # 2; H386 # 222, H389 # 274, H588 # 82.– Arnould, Péchés, p. 130 # 14; 5) A dead knight appears thrice to a priest and says he is being tormented for sacrilege and extortion. H494 # 189. g) Knight, dead, returns from purgatory. A dead knight appears to his sister and says that he is in purgatory. He bids her tell the Dominicans and Franciscans to preach God’s mercy. H495 # 200. h) Knight, dead, returns to raped daughter. A knight appeared after death to his daughter whom he had raped. (See also: 2 731 ff., 4036). Alpha # 523; CHeist-XII #15; Recull # 459; S.T.: V132.1. (© Frederic C. Tubach)