Motif
Hunger leads animal into self-defeating trap
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A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family, within the sub-family Baits, Traps, and Predatory Lures. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE SWAN / THE SNAKE AND JUPITER / THE WOLF AND HIS SHADOW / THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE WOLF; lines 4634-4646 confidence: high
While the ploughman is absent, a half-starved wolf appears.
The wolf's hunger drives it to chew the straps, which leads to entanglement in the harness.
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