Motif
Adopted predator betrays the flock
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A motif of the Betrayal and Violated Trust family, within the sub-family Protector Betrayal and Protective-Role Inversion. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE ATHENIAN AND THE THEBAN / THE GOATHERD AND THE GOAT / THE SHEEP AND THE DOG / THE SHEPHERD AND THE WOLF; lines 4230-4246 confidence: high
“A Shepherd found a Wolf's Cub straying in the pastures, and took him home and reared him along with his dogs.”
A wolf cub raised in the shepherd’s household becomes a sheep thief and accomplice in sharing stolen sheep.
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