Motif
animal compelled by threat or fear-producing speech
animal_compelled_by_threat_or_fear_producing_speech
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
estonian
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The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country PART II / SECTION I / THE MILKY WAY. / THE GRATEFUL PRINCE.; lines 4670-4762 confidence: medium
The prince enters the cowhouse before dawn with a milk-pail and live coals; the black cow speaks; he mentions hot tongs for cows that hold back milk, milks her dry, and tells the angry master he relies on his own head and God in heaven.
The black cow is scared by the prince's talk of hot tongs, and the white mare runs off like the wind after he says he is counting packs of wolves.
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