Motif
Animal-created false token of death
animal_created_false_token_of_death
A motif of the Recognition Tokens and Identity Proofs family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FOURTH.; lines 5945-6031 confidence: high
The lioness, after drinking, tears the abandoned covering with her blood-stained mouth.
The lioness tears Thisbe's abandoned veil with a blood-stained mouth, and Pyramus later interprets the bloodied veil and tracks as proof that Thisbe has been killed.
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