Motif
Enchanted music compels procession
enchanted_music_compels_procession
A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power family, within the sub-family Luring, Procession, and Compulsory Dance. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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norse
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1298-1437 confidence: high
Hamelin is infested with rats; a parti-coloured piper plays, the rats follow in procession, and they drown in the river Weser.
The piper's music causes rats and later children to follow him in ordered movement.
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