Motif
Three-night vigil over a dangerous dead enchantress
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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 SOZH AND DNIEPER. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER IV. / MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT.; lines 11438-11571 confidence: high
The princess falls ill, orders that the priest's son read the psalter over her for three nights if she dies, then dies and is placed in a coffin in church; the king commands the priest to send his son.
The dead princess requires the boy to read the psalter over her for three nights; during the vigil she rises from the coffin and attacks him.
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