Motif
revenant destroyed or neutralized by special violence to the corpse
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Burial Vigils and Corpse-Restraint Rites. 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 MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER V. / GHOST STORIES.; lines 13717-13791 confidence: high
Anti-vampire measures include driving an aspen or thorn stake through the corpse; examples are given of staked vampires resisting, and certain destruction is said to require fire or decapitation with a grave-digger's shovel.
The passage gives staking, burning, and decapitation with a grave-digger's shovel as means to deprive the vampire of power or destroy it.
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