Motif
Bleeding plant reveals a murdered dead person
bleeding_plant_reveals_a_murdered_dead_person
A motif of the Death, Rebirth, and Transformation family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK SECOND / THE STORY OF THE SACK OF TROY / BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING; lines 1498-1588 confidence: high
Aeneas sacrifices to his mother and the gods, slaying a bull; near a mound covered with cornel and myrtle, he tears up wood for the altar and black blood flows from the broken roots.
Wood growing on a mound bleeds when torn up, and a voice from beneath the mound identifies the dead Polydorus and explains that weapons covered his pierced body.
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