Motif
Danger revealed by sudden light
danger_revealed_by_sudden_light
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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West African Folk-Tales XXI. THE HUNTER AND THE TORTOISE / XXII. THE TAIL OF THE PRINCESS ELEPHANT / XXIII. KWOFI AND THE GODS / XXIV. THE LION AND THE WOLF; lines 2113-2148 confidence: high
A lightning flash shows the fox that the wolf is attacking “not a sheep—but a lion”; the fox runs away shouting, “Look at his face!”
A bright flash of lightning reveals to the fox that the attacked animal is a lion rather than a sheep.
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