Motif
cannibal witch with bone-fenced house
cannibal_witch_with_bone_fenced_house
A motif of the Threshold Guardian family. 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 INTRODUCTORY. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER II. / MYTHOLOGICAL.; lines 6115-6203 confidence: high
Baba Yaga is described as generally killing people to eat them; her house is fenced with bones of devoured men, and in one story she offers a human arm as food. The passage also says she can petrify victims and compares this with Medusa and the Gorgones.
The passage says Baba Yaga generally kills people to eat them and that her house is fenced with bones of men she has devoured.
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