Motif
Blessing breaks demonic musical materials
blessing_breaks_demonic_musical_materials
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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slavic
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER V. / GHOST STORIES.; lines 12891-13036 confidence: medium
The Fiddler says his strings are snapped; a fiend fetches two hanks of catgut; after the Fiddler says, “May the Lord grant us his blessing!”, both hanks snap.
The fiend-supplied catgut hanks snap immediately after the Fiddler invokes the Lord's blessing.
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