Motif
Survival from flood on a floating tree
survival_from_flood_on_a_floating_tree
A motif of the Flood, Fire, and Cosmic Renewal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India THE TALKATIVE TORTOISE / THE MONKEYS AND THE GARDENER / THE GOBLIN AND THE SNEEZE / THE GRATEFUL BEASTS AND THE UNGRATEFUL PRINCE; lines 1202-1311 confidence: medium
The servants decide to throw the prince into the strong current, report that he was carried away by a flood, and the prince survives by climbing onto an uprooted tree floating downstream.
The prince, snake, rat, and parrot survive the flood by being on the same uprooted tree, which the hermit pulls ashore.
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