Motif
Animal companion defeated after prophetic warning
animal_companion_defeated_after_prophetic_warning
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
romanian
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Roumanian Fairy Tales HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY / COPYRIGHT, 1885, / PREFACE. / CONTENTS.; lines 5482-5605 confidence: high
Tellerchen says the youth should not laugh because the bull will overpower him; he tells the youth to seize his left horn if he is pushed under the bridge and not open it until home.
Tellerchen predicts the bull will overpower him, directs the youth to take his horn, and is then defeated at the bridge.
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