Motif
Animated dead animal active by night and neutralized by cockcrow and burial rite
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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.
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The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country THE MOON-PAINTER. / THE TREASURE-BRINGER. / THE WOODEN MAN AND THE BIRCH-BARK MAID. / MARTIN AND HIS DEAD MASTER.; lines 12810-12911 confidence: high
A farmer skins his dead horse, sees a great toad creep under it, and at night sees the dead horse enter the barn, snuffling and snorting and breaking posts while he escapes into the rafters.
The dead horse enters the barn at night, collapses at cockcrow, and remains quiet after burial and three left-heel stamps on the grave.
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