Motif
Evil stepmother sends child into supernatural danger
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A motif of the Jealous Stepmother and Persecuted Child family, within the sub-family Expulsion, Pit Abandonment, and Supernatural Peril. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore INTRODUCTORY. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER II. / MYTHOLOGICAL.; lines 5878-6004 confidence: high
In the tale, a man remarries after his wife's death. His daughter by the first marriage is mistreated by the evil stepmother, who wants her killed and sends her to the stepmother's sister, a Baba Yaga, for needle and thread.
The stepmother mistreats the girl and sends her to Baba Yaga, who is the stepmother's sister, under the pretext of asking for needle and thread.
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