Motif
stolen shroud demanded by a revenant
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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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slavic
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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER V. / GHOST STORIES.; lines 13171-13318 confidence: high
At midnight she returns the picture, then sees a corpse in a white shroud seated on a tomb in the moonlit graveyard and takes the shroud from it.
The girl removes the shroud from a corpse, and the corpse returns at night demanding not only the shroud but its restoration to the original place.
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