Motif
bodily restoration after injury
bodily_restoration_after_injury
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
japanese
-
Japanese Fairy Tales PREFACE / JAPANESE FAIRY TALES / MY LORD BAG OF RICE / THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW; lines 509-612 confidence: medium
The old man reaches a bamboo wood, finds his sparrow waiting, hears her speak, sees that a new tongue has grown, and realizes she is a fairy rather than a common bird.
The sparrow shows that a new tongue has grown in place of the old one and that she is well again.
read in the book →