Motif
Animal helper avenges a murdered household member
animal_helper_avenges_a_murdered_household_member
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.
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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 1301-1411 confidence: high
The badger escapes to his den; the old man realizes the badger killed and cooked his wife and that he nearly drank the soup, then faints and grieves.
The rabbit hears the farmer's grief, learns of the wife's murder, and promises to avenge her death.
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