Motif
dawn suspense reprieve
dawn_suspense_reprieve
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamicate folklore
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights: Scheherazade volunteers and secures the dawn reprieve confidence: high
Scheherazade instructs Dinarzade to wake her before dawn and ask for a story so that the people may be delivered from terror.
The unfinished tale is timed to the Sultan's dawn departure for council and produces a stay of execution.
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