Motif
Escape from fiery iron enclosure
escape_from_fiery_iron_enclosure
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.
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celtic welsh
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The Mabinogion PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 6666-6754 confidence: high
After the couple becomes hated for disorderly conduct, the Irish build an iron chamber, heat it with coals and bellows, and trap the man, woman, and children inside; the man breaks through the white-hot plates and escapes with his wife. Bendigeid later says he dispersed them through his dominions.
Llassar, Kymideu, and their children are trapped in an iron chamber heated red hot; Llassar breaks through the heated plates and Kymideu follows him out.
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