Motif
Wish for extended life prompted by a long-lived animal
wish_for_extended_life_prompted_by_a_long_lived_animal
A motif of the Immortality Without Renewal family. 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 JAPANESE FAIRY TALES / MY LORD BAG OF RICE / THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW / THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD; lines 728-854 confidence: medium
Urashima strokes the tortoise, calls it safe, says the tortoise has the longest life of any creature, returns it to its home in the sea, and watches it disappear into the water.
Urashima speaks of the tortoise's ten-thousand-year life and the next morning wishes he had thousands of years to live like the freed tortoise.
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