Motif
childhood skill acquired through enforced food-seeking test
childhood_skill_acquired_through_enforced_food_seeking_test
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4013-4051 confidence: high
The Baleares are identified, their natives are said to be famous slingers, and their skill is explained by mothers requiring children to knock food from a tree with a sling.
The passage says Balearic mothers trained children to obtain food by hitting it from a tree with a sling.
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