Motif
destruction of a deathless enemy by horse strike, burning, and scattering ashes
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A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness 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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Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars THE RING WITH TWELVE SCREWS. / THE FOOTLESS AND THE BLIND. / GO TO THE VERGE OF DESTRUCTION AND BRING BACK SHMAT-RAZUM. / MARYA MOREVNA.; lines 6706-6848 confidence: high
Koshchei catches up and tries to cut Ivan; Ivan's horse smashes Koshchei's skull, Ivan finishes him with a club, burns him, and scatters the ashes to the wind.
Ivan's horse smashes Koshchei's skull; Ivan finishes him with a club, burns him on a fire, and scatters the ashes to the wind.
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