Motif
Greed for fruit leads to murder and retaliation
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Pride, Greed, and Hubris. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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japanese
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Japanese Fairy Tales THE HAPPY HUNTER AND THE SKILLFUL FISHER / THE STORY OF THE OLD MAN WHO MADE WITHERED TREES TO FLOWER / THE JELLY FISH AND THE MONKEY / THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB; lines 5295-5401 confidence: medium
The young crab resolves to avenge his father, examines the persimmon tree area, notices missing fruit, peel, seeds, and thrown unripe persimmons, remembers the rice-dumpling and persimmon-seed story, and concludes that the monkey killed his father.
The young crab links the monkey's desire for persimmons to the old crab's death, and the monkey later congratulates himself on robbing the crab of ripe persimmons and killing him.
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