Motif
concealment inside animal or egg enclosure
concealment_inside_animal_or_egg_enclosure
A motif of the Sacred Vessel and Container family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm SECOND STORY / FIRST STORY / SECOND STORY / THIRD STORY; lines 23217-23306 confidence: high
The raven repays the youth by enclosing him in an egg; the princess cannot see him until the eleventh window, then orders the raven shot and the egg broken.
The youth is hidden inside a raven’s egg and then inside a fish’s stomach during successive attempts to evade detection.
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