History Main / SupernaturallyMarkedGrave

* Possibly similar to the John Newton example below, there is an allegedly true story that an apple farmer killed a tramp and buries him on the orchard and from then on those apples had a reddish tinge inside.

* After Shep gets buried in ''Anime/Interstella5555'', The Crescendolls hold hands and meditate around his grave. Blue flowers instantly grow on it, and his ghost appears and flies off.

** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E04ChildrenShouldntPlayWithDeadThings Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things]]", Dean notices a grave surrounded by dead grass which is the first clue that the college student who was supposed to be buried there has become a murdering zombie.

* In the ending of ''Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx'' a cherry tree grows from Zero Two's [[TakenForGranite petrified body]] after it crumbles into dust. When Zero Two and Hiro's disembodied souls finally make it back to Earth many years later and are reincarnated they meet again under this tree, which has grown enormous.

* After Shep gets buried in ''Anime/Interstella5555'', The Crescendolls hold hands and meditate around his grave. Blue flowers instantly grow on it and his ghost appears and fly off.

* ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'': The {{Big Bad}}, Hexxus, was defeated and sealed in an ugly, gnarled tree prior to the events of the movie (and at the end of the movie, sealed in a much bigger, less ugly tree).

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* In ''Literature/{{Eragon}}'', when Brom is buried, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Saphira]] uses dragon magic to transmute his tomb into diamond.
** [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Which Eragon has to go back and make magically impregnable because a giant diamond sitting out in the open is just begging for someone to chip pieces off.]]
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', when [[spoiler: Dumbledore]] dies, he is entombed in a magically-created sarcophagus of solid white marble.
** Downplayed with [[spoiler:Dobby]]. The only magic used was engraving his name onto his headstone. Harry wanted to avert this trope by digging his grave without using magic.

* C.B. Colby's ''Strangely Enough!'', story "No Grass on the Grave". A man named John Newton was sentenced to death by hanging. He maintained that he was not guilty of the crime he was accused of and that as proof, no grass would grow on his grave for a generation. Despite the best efforts of the townsfolk, not only would grass not grow on his grave but the grassless area was in the shape of a coffin. More than sixty years later grass finally grew on the grave...in the shape of a cross.

** In ''The Return of the King'', the grass on Snowmane's grave grows long and green (presumably because he was from a line of {{Cool Horse}}s), even though he inadvertently [[spoiler: caused his master's death]]. By contrast, the place where the Nazgûl's GiantFlyer perishes is barren.

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'':

** In the last book, [[spoiler: Egwene]] discovers the antithesis to Balefire, and channels so much of it in a BeamOWar that she obliterates herself, transforming the surroundings and all of her opponents into indestructible crystal.

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* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]] reveals that the Doctor's own eventual grave on the planet Trenzalore is ([[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will be?]]) one of these: marked with the near-dead TARDIS, grown to the size of a mountain, with the Doctor's "corpse" at its heart - actually a temporal rift leading to every point in history the Doctor has ever influenced.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E04ChildrenShouldntPlayWithDeadThings "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" (S02, Ep04)]], Dean notices a grave surrounded by dead grass which is the first clue that the college student who was supposed to be buried there has become a murdering zombie.
** Another episode had Sam noticing an outgrowth of a unique plant, which was never mentioned before or again, that only sprouts that way around the graves of active ghosts.

* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Fragments of Fear'', adventure "The Underground Menace". If the [[{{PC}} Investigators]] manage to kill the Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath it melts, leaving a loathsomely-damp spot on the earth in which all the plants have been killed. No new plants will grow there for decades to come.
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', when a dragon dies the elemental magic that powers its BreathWeapon can diffuse into the environment around its body - one of the many dangers in [[ElephantGraveyard Dragon Graveyards]] are spontaneous storms of fire, lightning, etc., or hordes of elementals spawned by all the residual magic. The ''Draconomicon'' sourcebook adds that a dying wyrm can consume its DragonHoard and merge with the natural world, forming a dragon-shaped landform like a hill or lake that offers supernatural protection to any dragon eggs laid there.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=287330 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth]]
-->"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
-->--Lord Windgrace

* The ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' game ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' plays upon the above example from Japanese mythology. Yuyuko Saigyouji, the ghostly princess of the Netherworld, is trying to revive the girl buried beneath the Saigyou Ayakashi, a {{Youkai}} cherry tree that lured victims to a fatal slumber beneath its branches until it was put into magical dormancy. Unfortunately, [[GhostAmnesia she forgot that it's]] ''[[GhostAmnesia her]]'' [[GhostAmnesia body buried there]] - a thousand years ago Yuyuko [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] in dismay over [[IWishedYouWereDead her power to invoke death in others]], and her friend used her body to complete the seal on the tree.

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* In [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/A_Candle_Cove_Anecdote A Candle Cove Anecdote]], a leafless tree grows where the narrator buried his Horrible Horace doll. Every summer, it attracts a disturbing amount of flies.

* The ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Last of the Starmakers" has a dying Starmaker trying to protect her clutch of eggs. When the eggs have hatched safely, she is able to die in peace, and a flower garden grows where her body dissolved into the earth.

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* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]] reveals that the Doctor's own eventual grave on the planet Trenzalore is ([[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will be?]]) one of these: marked with the near-dead TARDIS, grown to the size of a mountain, with the Doctor's "corpse" at its heart - actually a temporal rift leading to every point in history the Doctor has ever influenced.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E04ChildrenShouldntPlayWithDeadThings "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" (S02, Ep04)]], Dean notices a grave surrounded by dead grass which is the first clue that the college student who was supposed to be buried there has become a murdering zombie.
** Another episode had Sam noticing an outgrowth of a unique plant, which was never mentioned before or again, that only sprouts that way around the graves of active ghosts.

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* Possibly similar to the John Newton example above, there is an allegedly true story that an apple farmer killed a tramp and buries him on the orchard and from then on those apples had a reddish tinge inside.
* According to Myth/JapaneseMythology, CherryBlossoms get their pink color from having a body buried underneath one.
* In most versions of the Japanese folktale of Tamamo-no-Mae, after the malevolent [[AsianFoxSpirit kitsune]] is killed her corpse petrifies into a cursed stone called the Sesshōseki, which emits a deadly miasma that kills anyone who goes near it.

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* After Shep gets buried in ''Anime/Interstella5555'', The Crescendolls hold hands and meditate around his grave. Blue flowers instantly grow on it and his ghost appears and fly off.

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* Happens many, many times in [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium the legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien]]. Some specifics:

* Invoked in one of the Tiffany Aching ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books. After an old woman was accused of witchcraft, evicted from her house with her cat, and shunned until she starved or froze to death, Tiffany makes a point of planting flowers and catnip on the woman's grave to make people think this has happened.
* In the ''Literature/ArciaChronicles'', when [[spoiler:the Elven lord Asten]] is killed, nothing special happens to his body or the place the murder took place. However, [[InvokedTrope that doesn't sit well with Gerika]], so she causes the earth to magically envelop it, then transmutes the earth into a giant amethyst.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', when [[spoiler: Dumbledore]] dies, he is entombed in a magically-created sarcophagus of solid white marble.
** Downplayed with [[spoiler:Dobby]]. The only magic used was engraving his name onto his headstone. Harry wanted to avert this trope by digging his grave without using magic.
* In the ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries'', the grave of Alcatraz Smedry's ancestor Allekatrase the First exists in a state of perfect stasis, owing to Allekatrase using his [[WalkingWasteland Breaking Talent]] on ''time itself'' there.
* In ''Literature/{{Eragon}}'', when Brom is buried, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Saphira]] uses dragon magic to transmute his tomb into diamond.
** [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Which Eragon has to go back and make magically impregnable because a giant diamond sitting out in the open is just begging for someone to chip pieces off.]]
* In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', Thalia's tree, and more importantly, the barrier that keeps out the various monsters, fits the bill.

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* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Fragments of Fear'', adventure "The Underground Menace". If the [[{{PC}} Investigators]] manage to kill the Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath it melts, leaving a loathsomely-damp spot on the earth in which all the plants have been killed. No new plants will grow there for decades to come.

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* In ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'', dead souls infected with "sproutella" are transformed into flowers, rendering them DeaderThanDead and leaving a patch reminiscent of a grave. This is kind of an inversion, since here the creation of the grave is itself the cause of death.

* Enemies in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' turn into flowers when they are killed.
* Dead humans in ''VideoGame/DoshinTheGiant'' will [[WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath float up to the sky]] and leave a flower behind that will grow into a tree the next day.
* Bloodwood trees in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' only grow in places where much blood has been spilled. The trees literally bleed when they are cut down. Their wood can be fletched into a special kind of crossbow bolt that is more effective against other players, but if you take the wood too far away from the trees without adding the special bolt tips that stabilizes it, the wood will turn to ash.

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** The Dead Marshes are a former battlefield, the site of the last great battle of the alliance of Elves and Men against Sauron. The land has never recovered, and puddles contain corpses of soldiers from either side in a perpetual state of semi-decomposition, their spirits seeking to lure the living to join them. Similar wastelands mark other major battles which took place during ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''.

* In most versions of the Japanese folktale of Tamamo-no-Mae, after the malevolent {{kitsune}} is killed her corpse petrifies into a cursed stone called the Sesshōseki, which emits a deadly miasma that kills anyone who goes near it.

** [[RealityEnsues Which Eragon has to go back and make magically impregnable because a giant diamond sitting out in the open is just begging for someone to chip pieces off.]]

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', the 2nd Databook reveals the Blue Spider Lilly, the one thing Muzan wanted in the whole world, coincidentally started growing in her grave, the late wife of Muzan’s mortal enemy Yoriichi; the irony being said flower only blooms during the day, barring the evil limited by the night that is Muzan from ever identifying it.

* In ''VideoGames/GuildWars: [[ExpansionPack Factions]]'', Shiro Tagachi caused this on a massive scale, unleashing the "Jade Wind" with his last breath which transformed everything for miles into stone or jade.

If the change is a curse placed by the dying one with their last breath, that's a DyingCurse. Compare LeakingCanOfEvil. Not to be confused with supernatural variants of PrematurelyMarkedGrave.

* The ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Last of the Starmakers" has a dying [[EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods Starmaker]] trying to protect her clutch of eggs. When the eggs have hatched safely, she is able to die in peace, and a flower garden grows where her body dissolved into the earth.

If the change is a curse placed by the dying one with their last breath, that's a DyingCurse. Compare LeakingCanOfEvil.