Motif
secret vulnerability disclosed to a deceiver or captive
secret_vulnerability_disclosed_to_a_deceiver_or_captive
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family, within the sub-family Disclosure and Search for a Hidden Life-Token Vulnerability. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 6695-6769 confidence: high
Kashmir story: a lad pretending to be an ogress's grandson learns that seven cocks, a spinning-wheel, a pigeon, and a starling contain lives, then kills or smashes them and the ogres and ogresses perish.
The old ogress tells the disguised lad the location of several lives; another old ogress tells a captive princess the secret of the ogres' two bees, which the princess passes to the hero.
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