Motif
affliction removed from one person and transferred to another
affliction_removed_from_one_person_and_transferred_to_another
A motif of the Sacrifice and Offering family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
japanese
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Japanese Fairy Tales THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH / THE OGRE OF RASHOMON / HOW AN OLD MAN LOST HIS WEN; lines 7122-7243 confidence: high
The demon chief approves, reaches out, removes the lump from the old man’s right cheek as easily as a ripe plum, and the demons vanish.
The first old man’s wen is removed without pain, but the same lump is later thrown onto the neighbor’s cheek and attaches there.
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