Motif
persecuted stepdaughter sent into supernatural peril
persecuted_stepdaughter_sent_into_supernatural_peril
A motif of the Jealous Stepmother and Persecuted Child family, within the sub-family Expulsion, Pit Abandonment, and Supernatural Peril. 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 FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER III. / MYTHOLOGICAL. / SOZH AND DNIEPER.; lines 9576-9684 confidence: high
The Frost story is said to be known in many lands and in many Russian variants; the narrator highlights the jealous stepmother pattern and compares it with Vasilissa and another Khudyakof example.
The narrator describes a jealous stepmother exposing a stepdaughter to peril and provides variants in which stepdaughters are sent to the forest hut or the ovin at night.
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