Motif
Child Moses and the live coal
child_moses_and_the_live_coal
A motif of the Miraculous Child and Sacred Birth family, within the sub-family Birth and Early-Life Omens, Marks, and Tests. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 6279-6438 confidence: medium
Note reports that Muhammadan commentators tell how Moses as a child burned his tongue with a live coal, and that the same story is found in Midrashic and later Jewish sources.
A translator note reports a commentator tradition that child Moses burned his tongue with a live coal.
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