Motif
enchanted music compels dancing
enchanted_music_compels_dancing
A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm SECOND STORY / FIRST STORY / SECOND STORY / THIRD STORY; lines 15707-15732 confidence: high
The Jew asks to be tied fast; the servant prepares his fiddle. With the first, second, and third scrapes, the judge, clerk, hangman, and others begin shaking, raising their legs, releasing the servant, and dancing.
The servant's fiddle causes officials, onlookers, and dogs to quiver, jump, dance, or caper against ordinary control.
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