Motif
Child threatened with animal, then protected from it
child_threatened_with_animal_then_protected_from_it
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
greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE IMAGE-SELLER / THE EAGLE AND THE ARROW / THE RICH MAN AND THE TANNER / THE WOLF, THE MOTHER, AND HER CHILD; lines 2650-2662 confidence: medium
The wolf crouches beneath the window and hears the mother say, “Stop crying, do! or I'll throw you to the Wolf.”
The mother uses the wolf as a threat against the crying child, then later tells the child that the wolf will not get the child and that Daddy will kill him.
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