Motif
desecrated giant bird nest brings avian vengeance
desecrated_giant_bird_nest_brings_avian_vengeance
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Vengeance and Blood Guilt. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
islamicate folklore
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4190-4274 confidence: high
The explorers find a nearly hatched roc's egg; despite the narrator's protests, the merchants break the shell with hatchets, kill the young roc, light a fire, and roast pieces of it.
The merchants kill and roast the young roc, after which the parent rocs return and destroy the ship with stones.
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