Motif
Dangerous treasure guarded by a sleeping dragon
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A motif of the Serpent and Serpent Guardian family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer ON SWORDS. / CHAPTER XXXI. / THE OLD FISHERMAN. / CHAPTER XXXII.; lines 13952-14081 confidence: medium
Chuang Tzŭ tells of a poor rush-plaiter at Ho-Shang whose son dives into the river and obtains a pearl worth a thousand ounces from near a sleeping dragon; the father tells him to smash it.
The pearl is obtained from deep under a river near a sleeping dragon, and the danger is projected onto the prince’s favor.
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