Motif
Hero recruits animal companions through food reward and command
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A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family, within the sub-family Animal Allies and Heroic Animal Identity. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
japanese
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Japanese Fairy Tales THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB / THE WHITE HARE AND THE CROCODILES / THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH; lines 6510-6645 confidence: high
Momotaro gives the monkey a piece of rice-cake; the monkey joins; the dog and monkey quarrel; Momotaro arranges the dog with a flag, the monkey with a sword, and himself between them with an iron war-fan.
The monkey joins after receiving a rice-cake, and the pheasant joins after surrendering and later receives half a cake.
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