Motif
External death hidden in nested egg-chain
external_death_hidden_in_nested_egg_chain
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token 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 INTRODUCTORY. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER II. / MYTHOLOGICAL.; lines 4719-4826 confidence: high
One description says Koshchei is killed by a blow on the forehead from the mysterious egg that is the last link in the magic chain binding his life.
Koshchei's death is bound to an egg, and variants place the fatal object inside nested animals or objects; breaking the egg kills Koshchei.
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