Motif
animal corpse substituted for human corpse
animal_corpse_substituted_for_human_corpse
A motif of the Sacrifice and Offering 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 LI. THE HASTY WORD 370 / RUSSIAN FOLK-TALES. / CHAPTER I. / INTRODUCTORY.; lines 2307-2428 confidence: high
The brothers decide the Simpleton may reveal everything, so at night they kill a goat, put it in the cellar, and hide the Diachok’s body in the ground elsewhere.
The brothers replace the Diachok’s body in the cellar with a dead goat, causing searchers to find the goat instead of the missing man.
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