Motif
Ailing spouse demands a monkey heart as food or cure
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A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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shan
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Shans at Home, With Two Chapters on Shan History and Literature SPECIMEN OF SHAN WRITING. / THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE / THE HARE AND THE SNAIL / THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE; lines 9592-9649 confidence: high
A crocodile lives with his wife in a great river; the wife says she wants to eat a monkey's heart or she will die.
The crocodile's wife says she wants a monkey heart to eat or she will die, and the crocodile later explains this as the reason for trying to drown the monkey.
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