The Lake Beetle as Groom
Russian fairy tale
Summary
The Lake Beetle as Groom is a Russian fairy tale (skazka) collected by Russian philologist Dimitry M. Balashov. It deals with the marriage between a human maiden and a lake beetle that changes into a human named Osip. The heroine's mother murders her husband and the maiden curses her children to become birds at the end of the tale.
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