Motif
Abducted daughter held by fiends after parental curse
abducted_daughter_held_by_fiends_after_parental_curse
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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slavic
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore GHOST STORIES. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER VI. / LEGENDS.; lines 15309-15468 confidence: high
The maiden says she is a priest's daughter who disappeared at age nine after her father angrily said, 'May devils fly away with you'; fiends then seized her and brought her there.
The maiden says her father angrily cursed her, after which fiends seized her and brought her to their dwelling.
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