Motif
Fictive sibling household formed after abduction
fictive_sibling_household_formed_after_abduction
A motif of the Sacred Twins and Sibling Pairs family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore SOZH AND DNIEPER. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER IV. / MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT.; lines 10565-10691 confidence: medium
The heroes bring the merchant's daughter to the forest hut, ask her to be like a sister and keep house, and later respect and love her as an adopted sister while she cooks and washes linen.
The heroes ask the merchant's daughter to be in the place of a sister and later treat her as an adopted sister while she manages the household.
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