Motif
treasure gained after an encounter with the dead
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Ghost Encounters and Gifts from the Dead. 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 SOZH AND DNIEPER. / FOOTNOTES: / CHAPTER IV. / MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT.; lines 12226-12250 confidence: medium
In the Russian skazka excerpt, the third confrontation occurs as he is about to rush at her; she lays a cross on him, he dies, and she finds money in the coffin; the father-in-law wanted the money controlled by cunning.
The Russian scene has money in a coffin, and the West Highland tale ends with gold, silver, and cordial being obtained after the corpse-watch episode.
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