Motif
Coercion by possession of another’s life-container
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A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family, within the sub-family Control Through a Life-Container. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7039-7104 confidence: high
In a modern Arabian tale, an ogress queen blinds forty queens; Mohammed learns that one bottle contains her life and another their eyes, kills a beetle that is the slave’s life, compels the ogress to restore the eyes, and the ogress dies when her life escapes from the bottle.
Mohammed holds the ogress queen’s life and refuses to kill her until she restores the eyes of the forty queens.
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