Motif
ash-hidden simpleton becomes serpent-slayer
ash_hidden_simpleton_becomes_serpent_slayer
A motif of the Divine Warrior and Sacred Combat family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore INTRODUCTORY. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER II. / MYTHOLOGICAL.; lines 3078-3192 confidence: medium
Ivan Popyalof is the simpleton third son of an old couple; after twelve years among the ashes he rises, shakes off six poods of ashes, lives in a land of perpetual night caused by a Snake, and asks his father for a five-pood mace.
Ivan is introduced as a simpleton who lies among stove ashes for twelve years, then rises, prepares a massive mace, and undertakes the killing of the Snake.
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