Motif
False omen exposed
false_omen_exposed
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Omen Interpretation and Response. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation HERCULES AND PLUTUS / THE FOX AND THE LEOPARD / THE FOX AND THE HEDGEHOG / THE CROW AND THE RAVEN; lines 4964-4979 confidence: high
The travellers are dismayed by the sound because they fear it may be a bad omen.
The crow's cawing initially alarms the travellers as a possible bad omen, but one traveller identifies the source as a crow and dismisses it as meaningless.
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