Motif
ominous wedding signs preceding death
ominous_wedding_signs_preceding_death
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Civic, Marriage, and Communal Signs. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH.; lines 3955-4038 confidence: high
Hymenaeus comes to Orpheus' wedding without auspicious words, joyful looks, or a happy omen; his torch smokes, brings tears, and has no flame.
The wedding deity arrives with no happy omen and a smoking, flameless torch before Eurydice's fatal serpent bite.
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