Motif
External object containing the antagonist's death
external_object_containing_the_antagonist_s_death
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 4352-4457 confidence: high
The passage introduces a Koshchei the Deathless version in which his death is caused by destroying an extraneous object on which his existence depends, describing the incident as common across Europe and Asia and usually placed in Russian tales at the end of a sequence of objects.
Koshchei's death is described as dependent on the destruction of an extraneous object on which his existence depends.
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