Motif
Animal thief threatened with human legal punishment
animal_thief_threatened_with_human_legal_punishment
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
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The Mabinogion PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 7301-7377 confidence: high
Manawyddan tells Kicva the captured creature is a thief that robbed his fields and says he will hang it; Kicva says hanging such a creature would be unseemly for a man of his dignity and advises release.
Manawyddan repeatedly calls the mouse a thief and says he will hang it with the doom of a thief.
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