Motif
Fear that a dead wrongdoer may be rejected at Death's gate and return
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A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family, within the sub-family Death Gates, Hell Pits, and Underworld Enforcers. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India THE CUNNING CRANE AND THE CRAB / UNION IS STRENGTH / SILENCE IS GOLDEN / THE GREAT YELLOW KING AND HIS PORTER; lines 1882-1929 confidence: high
The porter says the King always gave him a cuff on the head and fears that if the King does the same to the porter by the gates of Death, "they won't have him there at any price, and then he will come back to us."
The porter fears the dead King will assault the porter at the gates of Death, be refused, and come back to the living.
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