Question

A folktale character with this name hides her wedding dress under a rock in the ocean, only for it to be fetched by an army of crabs at the behest of an archer’s talking stallion. A girl with this name is the subject of Chapter 3 in Clarissa Estés’s Women Who Run with the Wolves, which offers a Jungian analysis of her refusal to “know too much” by asking about three pairs of disembodied hands that materialize to press some poppy seeds. A king’s arrow leads his youngest son to a “frog princess” (15[1])with this name. A girl with this name experiences (*) day, sunrise, and night as men on white, red, and black horses ride past her in the forest. Ivan Bilibin’s illustrations depict a girl with this name walking by light of a flaming skull after her magic doll helps her sort corn for Baba Yaga. For 10 points, give this ubiquitous name for Russian fairy tale heroines, like ones nicknamed “the wise” and “the beautiful.” ■END■

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary