Motif
answering substitute conceals flight
answering_substitute_conceals_flight
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser 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 INTRODUCTORY. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER II. / MYTHOLOGICAL.; lines 6006-6113 confidence: high
A variant sends the heroine by her husband’s mother; the husband’s advice saves her. Baba Yaga sharpens her teeth, and the girl escapes after placing spittle under the threshold by the Cat’s advice. The spittle answers for her like other proxy objects in folk-tales.
A variant has spittle under the threshold answering for the heroine, and the passage compares it to other proxy objects that behave similarly in folk-tales.
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