Motif
Memorial feast used as a trap
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A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family, within the sub-family Memorial Feasts, Prayers, and Tokens for the Dead. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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japanese
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Japanese Fairy Tales THE HAPPY HUNTER AND THE SKILLFUL FISHER / THE STORY OF THE OLD MAN WHO MADE WITHERED TREES TO FLOWER / THE JELLY FISH AND THE MONKEY / THE QUARREL OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB; lines 5295-5401 confidence: medium
A messenger from the young crab tells the monkey that the old crab died by falling from a persimmon tree, says the seventh-day memorial festival has been prepared, and invites the monkey as one of the dead crab's best friends.
The invitation to the seventh-day festival in honor of the dead crab is part of a plot against the unsuspecting monkey.
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