Motif
enemy feast as coercive ordeal
enemy_feast_as_coercive_ordeal
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family, within the sub-family Survival, Environmental, and Endurance Ordeals. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Gods and Fighting Men BOOK TWO: LUGH OF THE LONG HAND. / CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF LUGH / CHAPTER II. THE SONS OF TUIREANN / CHAPTER III. THE GREAT BATTLE OF MAGH TUIREADH; lines 2206-2301 confidence: medium
The Dagda asks the Fomor for delay; they grant it and prepare a huge broth of milk, meal, fat, and animals, poured into a hole. Indech threatens him if he leaves any food.
The Fomor offer the Dagda an excessive meal and threaten to kill him if any remains; he survives by consuming all of it.
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