Motif
dream appearance of the dead or absent speaker
dream_appearance_of_the_dead_or_absent_speaker
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Dream Visitors and Vision Revelations. 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 13653-13807 confidence: medium
Huan of Chêng studies at Ch'iu-shih, becomes a Confucianist, influences three families, causes his younger brother to become a Mihist, faces the father's preference for the Mihist, commits suicide, and later appears in the father's dream.
After Huan's suicide, the father dreams that Huan appears and speaks to him about the younger son's Mihist path.
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