Ancient Wisdom Atlas

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

  • 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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