Motif
small aperture defeats protective enclosure
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A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness family, within the sub-family Vulnerable body points, protective apertures, and altered vital anatomy. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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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 5381-5418 confidence: high
In a modern Greek tale, the Sun gives a daughter to a childless woman and will reclaim her at age twelve; the mother seals the house, but a sunbeam enters by the keyhole and carries the girl off.
A keyhole and a scraped wall-hole allow the sunbeam to enter despite efforts to exclude sunlight.
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