Motif
Material revenant or vampire preying on the living
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Vampires and Predatory Dead. 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 MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER V. / GHOST STORIES.; lines 13616-13715 confidence: high
The commentary says stories of this class are numerous and rest on a belief that some dead, in material shape, leave graves to destroy and prey upon the living; it contrasts cremation with burial and the attributed half-life of buried bodies.
The commentary states that these stories rest on the belief that certain dead, in material shape, leave their graves to destroy and prey upon the living, and identifies this with Slavonian vampire belief.
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