Motif
Binding obligation by geasa during crisis
binding_obligation_by_geasa_during_crisis
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN / THE SLAYING OF ORLAM / THE PROPOSALS / THE DEATH OF FORGEMEN; lines 7550-7699 confidence: high
The Morrigan comes as a white, hornless, red-eared heifer with fifty heifers linked by silvered bronze chains, disrupts the pools and fords, and women with sorcery constrain Cuchulain by geasa to stop her; Cuchulain strikes her with a sling-cast and shatters one of her eyes.
Women using strange sorcery constrain Cuchulain by geasa and inviolable bonds to check the heifer while he is engaged in the conflict.
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