because as soon as it sank in that he was the royen of fables and epics , and that he was consequently able to bring back the dead , he started running from one house to the next , touching the lovingly preserved corpses and lifting the pall of the shy death off of them , all the while pursued by more people who wanted to be touched by him and be relieved from illnesses and griefs , men , women and children laughing and sobbing and throwing themselves on the ground to kiss yonfis bare , ticklish feet .