Motif
malicious interruption causing the maker's wound
malicious_interruption_causing_the_maker_s_wound
A motif of the Sacred Craft and Divinely Aided Construction family, within the sub-family Coerced and Obstructed Craft Labor. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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finnish karelian
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Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 4268-4457 confidence: high
Wainamoinen takes the fragments to an iron mountain and works three days; Hisi and Lempo turn the axe, fragments wound Wainamoinen's knee and veins, and a crimson blood-stream gushes forth.
During the vessel-making, Hisi and Lempo interfere with the hatchet so that fragments wound Wainamoinen and his blood gushes forth.
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