The Girl as Soldier (German: Das Mädchen als Soldat) is a Russian folktale collected by Russian folklorist Ivan Khudyakov, originally titled "Опять Сноха" ("The Daughter-in-Law, Again"). The tale features a heroine that masquerades her gender by adopting a male disguise, passing by tests designed to discover her gender, and is later kidnapped by her lover (or her lover's mother, in other tales); her lover's mother then forces the heroine to perform difficult tasks for her.
The Girl as Soldier (German: Das Mädchen als Soldat) is a Russian folktale collected by Russian folklorist Ivan Khudyakov, originally titled "Опять Сноха" ("The Daughter-in-Law, Again"). The tale features a heroine that masquerades her gender by adopting a male disguise, passing by tests designed to discover her gender, and is later kidnapped by her lover (or her lover's mother, in other tales); her lover's mother then forces the heroine to perform difficult tasks for her.
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