Motif
Baba Yaga attacks an isolated maiden when protectors are absent
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A motif of the Threshold Guardian 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 SOZH AND DNIEPER. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER IV. / MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT.; lines 10565-10691 confidence: high
A Baba Yaga begins haunting the hut while the heroes are away, sucking the merchant's daughter's breasts; the maiden's face falls away and she grows weak and thin.
The Baba Yaga visits whenever the heroes leave for the chase, sucks the merchant's daughter's breasts, and causes her to become weak and thin.
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