Motif
Accidental invocation through an exclamation-name
accidental_invocation_through_an_exclamation_name
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
slavic
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER III. / MYTHOLOGICAL. / SOZH AND DNIEPER.; lines 9686-9765 confidence: high
The narrator introduces the mysterious personage Oh and says the story is familiar in many countries and numerous Russian versions. A father takes his boy to find a teacher and, when tired, exclaims 'Oh,' whereupon an old magician appears and asks why he was called.
The father exclaims 'Oh' from fatigue, after which the old magician Oh appears and says that the father called him by saying his name.
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