Motif
Animal avenger restores peace to bereaved household
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning 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 MY LORD BAG OF RICE / THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD / THE FARMER AND THE BADGER; lines 1413-1523 confidence: high
The rabbit keeps the wooden boat, gives the badger a clay boat, proposes a race offshore, refuses help when the clay softens, says he is avenging the old woman's murder, and strikes the badger until he sinks.
The rabbit kills the badger for the old woman's murder, reports this to the old farmer, and the farmer says he can again sleep and eat as before.
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