Motif
Blood as cause of natural color change
blood_as_cause_of_natural_color_change
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FOURTH.; lines 5870-5943 confidence: high
The storyteller considers tales of Dercetis in scaled form in pools, Dercetis's winged daughter in white towers, a Naiad using charms and herbs to turn young men into fish and later suffering the same, and a tree whose white fruit becomes purple through blood.
The storyteller chooses a tale in which a tree that formerly bore white fruit comes to bear purple fruit through contact with blood.
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