Motif
Animal body transformed into landscape
animal_body_transformed_into_landscape
A motif of the Primordial Sacrifice and Dismemberment family, within the sub-family Bodies Altering Landscapes and Producing Vegetation. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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estonian
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The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country CANTO VII / THE RETURN OF THE KALEVIDE / CANTO VIII / THE CONTEST AND PARTING OF THE BROTHERS; lines 2256-2368 confidence: high
While the king sleeps, he dreams of the horse being torn by wolves; wolves, bears, and foxes attack the hobbled horse, which fights and dies, and its body parts become landscape features.
After the horse is killed, its blood and body parts become a red lake, mountain, marsh, hills, reeds, bulrushes, and hazel-bushes.
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