Motif
death-dealing voice or whistle
death_dealing_voice_or_whistle
A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power 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 FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER IV. / MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 12400-12539 confidence: high
Solovei is glossed as nightingale and also as a mythical hero or robber whose voice or whistle could kill hearers.
Solovei is described as a mythical robber whose voice or whistle could kill those who heard it.
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