Motif
dream revealing or intensifying forbidden love
dream_revealing_or_intensifying_forbidden_love
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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 3334-3411 confidence: high
Byblis does not admit criminal hopes while awake, but in soft sleep she often sees the one she loves, seems to embrace her brother, blushes in sleep, then wakes and recalls the dream.
Byblis refuses criminal hopes while awake but repeatedly dreams of embracing her brother and then interprets the dream in speech.
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