Motif
Threat and counter-threat before future conflict
threat_and_counter_threat_before_future_conflict
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Causes of War. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Heroic Romances of Ireland THE APPARITION OF THE GREAT QUEEN TO CUCHULAIN / FROM THE YELLOW BOOK OF LECAN (FOURTEENTH CENTURY) / THE APPARITION OF THE GREAT QUEEN TO CUCHULAIN / LITERAL TRANSLATION; lines 12583-12628 confidence: high
The woman says that when Cuchulain fights an equal man, she will be an eel and draw a noose about his feet in the ford, making the combat unequal.
The exchange consists of the woman's three threatened interventions and Cuchulain's three threatened retaliatory injuries with refusal of healing.
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