Motifs
From The Seven Sages of Rome
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A
B
- Bathing
- Beating
- Beheading
- Biblical narrative
- Bird
- Blindness
- Blood
- Boar
- Bodily transformation
- Body fluids
C
- Cannibalism
- Caves and underground spaces
- Chastity
- Childbirth
- Children
- Christianity
- Clothes
- Coerced Marriage
- Coerced sex
- Court of law
- Cross dressing
- Cross dressing: man in women’s clothes
- Cross dressing: woman in men’s clothes
D
- Death
- Death of husband
- Death of lover
- Death of son
- Debt
- Deceitful advisor
- Deceitful lover
- Deceitful old man
- Deceitful old woman
- Deceitful son
- Deceitful woman
- Deception
- Deception of would-be lover
- Disability
- Disguise
- Disposal of corpse
- Dog
- Dreams
- Dwarf
- Dynastic marriage
E
E cont.
F
- Failed/rejected seduction
- False evidence of unchastity/criminality
- False evidence of virtue
- Familial duty
- Familial relationships
- Father/daughter relationships
- Father/son relationships
- Fish
- Food and drink
- Foolish old man
- Fox
- Fratricide
- Friendship
G
H
I
- Identity object
- Illegitimacy
- Illness
- Impossible conditions
- Impotence anxiety
- Imprisonment
- Islam
- Islamophobia
J
L
- Lecherous old man
- Lesson: flattery
- Lesson: greed
- Lesson: haste
- Lesson: loyalty
- Lesson: women’s cleverness and deceit
- Lion
M
M cont.
N
O
P
- Parrot
- Patricide
- Person concealed within a chest
- Poison
- Pregnancy
- Pride
- Prohibtions/taboos
- Punishment for theft
R
- Rabbit
- Rape
- Religion
- Religious conflict
- Religious conversion
- Remorse
- Revenge
- Riches
- Riding/carried by an animal
- Ring
- Rooster
S
- Serpent
- Setting: exotic/orientalised
- Setting: nature
- Sex change
- Sheep
- Slander: wife falsely accused
- Suicide
- Swan
- Sword
T
U
V
W