Motif
Child use of toy and practice weapons
child_use_of_toy_and_practice_weapons
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
shan
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Shans at Home, With Two Chapters on Shan History and Literature GIRL FIVE YEARS OLD. / A CHILD'S LIFE / LITTLE GIRL. / A CHILD'S LIFE; lines 2259-2309 confidence: medium
Many children carry small bows; one kind is a cross-bow with wooden arrows lacking barb or feather and described as purely toy-like and harmless.
The passage describes children carrying cross-bows with harmless wooden arrows and another bow that shoots clay pellets with force.
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