Motif
tracking a revenant to the grave with salt
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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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
slavic
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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
Little-Russian belief: a vampire with numb crossed hands uses steel-like teeth, kills babies before older household members, and can be traced by salt footprints to its grave, where it has rosy cheeks and a bloody mouth.
Fine salt on the floor reveals the vampire's footsteps leading back to the grave.
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