Motif
unfamiliar mirror mistaken for another person
unfamiliar_mirror_mistaken_for_another_person
A motif of the Sacred Treasures and Power Objects family, within the sub-family Mirrors and Reflective Objects. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
japanese
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Japanese Fairy Tales THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY / THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE / THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD; lines 3178-3288 confidence: high
The husband gives the wife a square wooden box tied with red and white string; inside is a handled metal disk, bright on one side and decorated with pine-trees and storks on the other; she sees somebody looking at her in it.
The wife, having never seen such an object, looks into the reflective disk and says she sees somebody looking at her before her husband explains reflection.
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