Motif
Hero counters supernatural threats with reciprocal injury threats
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Cosmic and Supernatural Combat. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland THE APPARITION OF THE GREAT QUEEN TO CUCHULAIN / INTRODUCTION / THE APPARITION OF THE GREAT QUEEN TO CUCHULAIN / FROM THE YELLOW BOOK OF LECAN (FOURTEENTH CENTURY); lines 12410-12461 confidence: high
Cuchulain swears that if the eel comes to the Ford, it will be broken on a green stone until it releases him.
Cuchulain replies to each animal-form threat by declaring a specific counter-injury: breaking the eel, striking the wolf, and breaking the heifer's leg.
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