Motif
Blood causing transformation of a tree's fruit color
blood_causing_transformation_of_a_tree_s_fruit_color
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 daughter considers stories of Dercetis in pools with scales, a winged daughter in white towers, a Naiad changing young men to fish and undergoing the same, and a tree whose white fruit became purple from blood.
The narrator says the chosen story concerns a tree whose fruit was formerly white but became purple from contact with blood.
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