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* One tale by [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|The Brothers Grimm]] featured a ghost of a little girl. Someone finally realized she looked like she was trying to pull up a board in the floor. They looked, and found a coin her mother had given her to give to a beggar, but which she had kept for herself. They gave it to the next beggar and she stopped walking.
* A common trope in fairy tales is the hero having paid off a dead man's debts so he could be [[Due to the Dead|buried]], he [[Hitchhiker Heroes|acquires a companion]] who aids him. In the end, the companion tells him that he was the dead man. This is known as the "grateful dead man." (Yes, BTW.)
** One such is ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718151331/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/birdgrip.html The Bird Grip]''.
** A great many more [http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0505.html here].
* [[Fairy Tale]] stepchildren are often aided against the [[Wicked Stepmother]] by their dead mother, as in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130824062133/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/german.html Aschenputtel] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104152714/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html The Wonderful Birch].
* "The Shroud", another Grimm Brothers one, had the little boy returning because his mother was mourning too strongly: her tears had soaked his shroud so he could not sleep.
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