Motif
thoughtless play causes death to others
thoughtless_play_causes_death_to_others
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE LION AND THE MOUSE / THE CROW AND THE PITCHER / THE BOYS AND THE FROGS / THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN; lines 1255-1283 confidence: high
Mischievous boys play at the edge of a pond, see frogs in shallow water, pelt them with stones, and kill several.
The boys treat stone-throwing as amusement, while the frogs are killed by it and identify it as death to them.
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