Motif
one-day war ending at sunset
one_day_war_ending_at_sunset
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Host Battle and Siege. 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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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica THE PHOCAIS / THE MARGITES / THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE; lines 8541-8639 confidence: high
Crabs arrive with armored bodies, claws, shells, eight legs, and feelers; they bite the Mice's tails and feet, withstand spears, make the Mice flee, and the one-day war ends at sunset.
The war concludes when the Mice flee from the crabs, and the passage explicitly says the sun had set and the one-day war ended.
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