Motif
Unfillable container as trap
unfillable_container_as_trap
A motif of the Sacred Vessel and Container family, within the sub-family Flawed, Insatiable, and Trapping Vessels. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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celtic welsh
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The Mabinogion PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 6216-6305 confidence: high
Attendants try to fill the bag with food, but it remains no fuller; Pwyll says it will not be full unless a wealthy landholder treads down the food with both feet and says enough has been put in.
The bag remains no fuller despite being filled with food, and the stated condition for filling it leads Gwawl to step inside and be enclosed.
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