Motif
innocent group threatened by collective punishment
innocent_group_threatened_by_collective_punishment
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Rejected Warner and Communal Destruction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 END OF THE STORY OF THE SWIFT ANTELOPE. / END OF THE STORY OF THE DEER WHO WOULD NOT LEARN. / END OF THE STORY ON FOOD OFFERED TO THE DEAD. / END OF THE STORY OF THE KURUNGA ANTELOPE.; lines 10577-10728 confidence: high
Servants report that dogs ate the harness; the enraged king orders dogs killed wherever seen, and endangered dogs flee to the cemetery and join the Bodisat.
The king orders all dogs killed after the harness is damaged, though the Bodisat reasons that only palace dogs could be guilty.
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