Motif
Adversary dissolved into sand and burned
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A motif of the Death, Rebirth, and Transformation family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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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
Vikhor flies in angrily; Prince Vasily emerges, greets him, seizes his right little finger, and cannot be shaken off. Vikhor soars, strikes the ground, falls into fine yellow sand, and Prince Vasily burns the sand in the stove while retaining the finger.
After Vikhor strikes the ground, he falls to pieces into fine yellow sand; Prince Vasily gathers and burns the sand in a stove.
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