Motif
cockcrow ending nocturnal corpse visitation
cockcrow_ending_nocturnal_corpse_visitation
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Nocturnal Apparitions and Daylight or Cockcrow Limits. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER V. / GHOST STORIES.; lines 13171-13318 confidence: high
After supper and sleep, the corpse taps at the window crying for its shroud; when the girl offers it, the corpse says to restore it to where she took it from; cockcrow follows and the corpse disappears.
On both nights, the corpse disappears just after the cocks crow.
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