Motif
feigned reconciliation after attempted revenge
feigned_reconciliation_after_attempted_revenge
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family, within the sub-family Staged Deceptions and Feigned Conditions. 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 THE BULL AND THE CALF / THE TREES AND THE AXE / THE ASTRONOMER / THE LABOURER AND THE SNAKE; lines 3819-3833 confidence: medium
The father takes an axe, waits near the snake's hole, strikes at the snake, and cuts off the tip of its tail before it retreats.
After failing to kill the snake, the father pretends that he wants to make up the quarrel in order to draw it out again.
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