Motif
Blood-colored dew or drops as ominous natural image
blood_colored_dew_or_drops_as_ominous_natural_image
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Iliad THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 24896-25075 confidence: medium
The note discusses “Red drops of blood” as an ascertained reality in Greece and cites Tasso's lines about warm, bloody dews.
The note discusses red drops of blood and cites bloody dew in Tasso as a parallel image.
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