Motif
animated corpse attacks night traveler near graveyard or cross-roads
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Animated Corpses and Grave-Returning Revenants. 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 MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER V. / GHOST STORIES.; lines 13320-13455 confidence: high
The narrator states that vampires or animated corpses may lurk at cross-roads or near cemeteries, watching for unwary wayfarers to slay and eat.
The narrator describes animated corpses lurking near cross-roads and cemeteries to slay and eat wayfarers; the soldier and hunter episodes both place human travelers near graveyards at night with attacking corpses.
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