Motif
Child witness tells hidden supernatural truth but is disbelieved
child_witness_tells_hidden_supernatural_truth_but_is_disbelieved
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom 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 LI. THE HASTY WORD 370 / RUSSIAN FOLK-TALES. / CHAPTER I. / INTRODUCTORY.; lines 1167-1289 confidence: high
After the witch dies, the daughter seeks neighbors to help wash her, leaving the granddaughter alone; two demons emerge from beneath the stove, remove the witch’s skin and flesh, and the large demon gets into the skin.
The granddaughter sees the demons and reports the event, while her mother calls the report lies or nonsense.
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