Motif
Filial grave vigil rewarded by dead father's aid
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A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead 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 10946-11073 confidence: high
The passage introduces Princess Helena the Fair after noting the recurring Skazka supernatural steed; an old father teaches three sons and asks for prayers at his grave, and the King announces Helena's twelve-column shrine and high-throne bridegroom challenge.
Ivan alone reads prayers at his father's grave; when he later weeps there, the dead father emerges and helps him.
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