Motif
mutual destruction in revenge
mutual_destruction_in_revenge
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Vengeance and Blood Feud. 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 BAT, THE BRAMBLE, AND THE SEAGULL / THE DOG AND THE WOLF / THE WASP AND THE SNAKE / THE EAGLE AND THE BEETLE; lines 4392-4426 confidence: high
The snake cries, "Kill you I will, even at the cost of my own life," then puts his head with the wasp under a passing wagon wheel, and both perish.
The snake kills the wasp by putting both under a wagon wheel, explicitly accepting death as the cost of revenge.
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