Motif
small animals conceal a sacred fugitive
small_animals_conceal_a_sacred_fugitive
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Animal and Nature Helpers. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II.; lines 2914-2964 confidence: high
The passage reports variant miracle traditions: the Koreish were struck with blindness, or pigeons laid eggs and a spider wove a web at the cave entrance so the searchers looked no farther.
The passage reports traditions that pigeons' eggs and a spider web at the cave entrance cause pursuers to look no farther.
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