Motif
Supernatural antagonist as personified evil
supernatural_antagonist_as_personified_evil
A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family. 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 INTRODUCTORY. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER II. / MYTHOLOGICAL.; lines 7348-7359 confidence: medium
“the Witch and her near relation the Baba Yaga ... masculine embodiments of that spirit of evil ... the Snake, Koshchei, and other similar beings”
The Witch, Baba Yaga, the Snake, Koshchei, and similar beings are grouped as forms or embodiments of a spirit of evil.
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