Motif
Thief accidentally made to perform honest labor
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Mirrored Retribution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE SWAN / THE SNAKE AND JUPITER / THE WOLF AND HIS SHADOW / THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE WOLF; lines 4634-4646 confidence: medium
The wolf becomes entangled in the harness, takes fright, and struggles to get free while tugging at the traces as if dragging the plough.
The wolf is characterized as a thief by the ploughman, but its entanglement makes it tug at the traces as though pulling the plough.
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