Motif
ill-will rebounding on its instigator
ill_will_rebounding_on_its_instigator
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Mirrored Retribution. 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 HERCULES AND MINERVA / THE FOX WHO SERVED A LION / THE QUACK DOCTOR / THE LION, THE WOLF, AND THE FOX; lines 4902-4921 confidence: high
The Wolf, seeking to settle old scores, tells the Lion that the Fox has not visited and does not care whether the Lion is well or ill.
The Wolf stirs up ill-will against the Fox, but the Fox's response leads to the Wolf's own death; the Fox states this moral explicitly.
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