Motif
Hidden light reveals a nocturnal revenant
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Nocturnal Apparitions and Daylight or Cockcrow Limits. 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 LI. THE HASTY WORD 370 / RUSSIAN FOLK-TALES. / CHAPTER I. / INTRODUCTORY.; lines 1027-1165 confidence: high
The old woman stays awake and hears someone enter at midnight and go to the cradle; the baby becomes still as if suckled. After three nights she tells the moujik, who gathers kinsfolk; they hide a lighted taper in an earthen pot while keeping watch.
The moujik and kinsfolk hide a lighted taper, bring it out at midnight, and reveal the dead mother nursing the child.
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