Motif
Innocent or harmless figure punished with wrongdoers
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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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE FLY AND THE DRAUGHT-MULE / THE COCK AND THE JEWEL / THE WOLF AND THE SHEPHERD / THE FARMER AND THE STORK; lines 3263-3276 confidence: medium
The stork begs to be released, saying he is not a crane but a stork, visible by his feathers, and is “the most honest and harmless of birds.”
The stork claims not to be a crane and to be harmless, but the farmer says he will suffer like the cranes because of his company.
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