Motif
Corpse-staking to control a supposed vampire
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Burial Vigils and Corpse-Restraint Rites. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
slavic
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER V. / GHOST STORIES. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 13793-13940 confidence: high
The note says Slavonian peasants still drive stakes through supposed vampires and contrasts this with the abolished English legal rite of staking a suicide's corpse.
The notes state that Slavonian peasants drive stakes through supposed vampires and compare this with a former English suicide-corpse rite.
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