Motif
Child leader with animal companions in contests of strength
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A motif of the Miraculous Child and Sacred Birth family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
japanese
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Japanese Fairy Tales THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD / THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY; lines 1697-1832 confidence: high
The monkey wrestles the hare, pulls the hare's long ear, throws him by a leg, and receives a rice-dumpling from Kintaro.
Kintaro leads four animal friends, organizes wrestling matches among them, gives a prize, and later recounts their relative strength to his mother.
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