Motif
Robbers frightened by a living corpse and abandoning booty
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance 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 LI. THE HASTY WORD 370 / RUSSIAN FOLK-TALES. / CHAPTER I. / INTRODUCTORY.; lines 2152-2305 confidence: high
Robbers divide booty and dispute a golden sabre; the moujik says it should belong to whoever cuts off the corpse’s head. Marko jumps up, and the robbers flee, abandoning their spoil.
Robbers in the church flee when Marko rises from the coffin, leaving their spoil, which Marko and the moujik divide.
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