Motif
cannibal threat at the threshold of encounter
cannibal_threat_at_the_threshold_of_encounter
A motif of the Threshold Guardian family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer LANGUAGE. / CHAPTER XXVIII. / ON DECLINING POWER. / CHAPTER XXIX.; lines 12652-12775 confidence: medium
Robber Chê is encamped south of T'ai-shan and is devouring a dish of minced human liver when Confucius arrives.
Chê is eating minced human liver at the camp and threatens that Confucius's liver will be put in his morning stew if he does not leave.
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