Motif
blood-stained token falsely indicating death
blood_stained_token_falsely_indicating_death
A motif of the Sacred Treasures and Power Objects family, within the sub-family Recognition Tokens and Identity Signs. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FOURTH.; lines 5945-6031 confidence: high
After drinking from the spring, the lioness returns toward the woods and tears the abandoned thin covering with its blood-stained mouth.
Pyramus finds Thisbe's veil bloodied by the lioness and interprets it as proof that she has been killed.
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