Motif
animate iron animal adversary
animate_iron_animal_adversary
A motif of the Sacred Craft and Divinely Aided Construction 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 II. / MYTHOLOGICAL. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 7509-7649 confidence: high
Variants include children hidden from an iron-furred devouring bear, rescue by a bull-calf, and an iron wolf made for children that comes alive and destroys what it finds; de Gubernatis treats the story class as nature-myths.
The variants include a devouring bear with iron fur and an iron wolf that comes to life and destroys what it finds.
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