Motif
Dangerous fire contained by successive fish-swallowing
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A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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finnish karelian
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Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 23564-23746 confidence: high
The salmon darts to catch the fire-intruder but the red-ball escapes; a whiting swallows the Fire-child, and the Alue waters quiet and settle.
The Fire-child is swallowed by a whiting, then the whiting is swallowed by a trout; each fish suffers burning torment from the fire-bearing contents.
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