Motif
Overwhelming beauty causing self-wounding witnesses
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A motif of the Beauty Paired with Pain and Paradox family, within the sub-family Overwhelming Beauty Causing Bodily and Self-Wounding. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20308-20401 confidence: medium
The woman prepares a banquet, gives each guest a knife, summons Joseph, and the women cut their hands and call him no mortal but an angel.
The banquet women see Joseph, praise him greatly, cut their own hands, and say he is not mortal but angelic.
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