Motif
bewitched corpse-princess who rises at night to eat people
bewitched_corpse_princess_who_rises_at_night_to_eat_people
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Vampires and Predatory Dead. 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 GHOST STORIES. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER VI. / LEGENDS.; lines 14674-14798 confidence: high
An old man becomes the merchant's manager and prosperity follows; a witch enchants a princess who lies dead by day and eats people by night; the merchant undertakes and succeeds in disenchanting her, and the old man is identified as Nicholas.
The princess lies dead during the day, gets up at night, and eats people until she is shut in a coffin and later disenchanted.
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