Motif
mysterious one-eyed company under nightly penance
mysterious_one_eyed_company_under_nightly_penance
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Repentance and Mercy. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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islamicate folklore
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 3043-3146 confidence: high
The narrator sees a red copper castle, at first thinks it is fire, and then meets a tall old man with ten handsome young men, all blind in the right eye.
Ten right-eye-blind young men perform a repeated night ritual of blackening, grief, breast-beating, and confession of wicked lives.
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