Motif
Boiling-water corpse washing exposes or expels a supernatural intruder
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A motif of the Sacrifice and Offering 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 LI. THE HASTY WORD 370 / RUSSIAN FOLK-TALES. / CHAPTER I. / INTRODUCTORY.; lines 1167-1289 confidence: high
The witch says that after death her body should not be washed with lukewarm water, but scalded all over with water boiled at its hottest in a cauldron.
The witch’s command to use boiling water is followed by the demon’s inability to endure it and its flight from the trough.
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