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must answer riddle or die","ordeal":"Must answer or his head will fly to pieces","boon":"Takes goblin on his shoulder, but it escapes again","trick":"Inset tales turn on spouses’ deceit and false accusation","rule_broken":"Sets off silent, then speaks; goblin vanishes as before","punishment":"False wife has ears cut off and is banished","revelation":"Thief tells king the truth; bitten nose proves it"},"V":0,"Vl":4,"trip":0,"stay":0,"tripl":0,"wo":"supernatural","lv":"willing","bn":"none","sx":"male"},"src":["Twenty-Two Goblins","Project Gutenberg, ebook 2290","https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2290"]},"T0700":{"who":"the Master (the Buddha; in the tale the Bodisat, a wise minister)","e":["Former goldsmith monk fails at meditation; Sariputta takes him to Master.","Master questions Sariputta, says he misjudged, and keeps the monk.","Master favours the monk, creates a lotus and makes it decay.","Monk grasps impermanence, hears Master’s stanza, attains Arahatship, sings joy.","Monk returns; brethren praise the Master’s insight; he asks their talk.","Master tells tale: charger refuses fouled ford; Bodisat examines him.","Bodisat learns a hack bathed there, advises another ford.","Horse bathes elsewhere; king honours Bodisat; Master identifies the births."],"L":[2,2,2,2,2,2,2],"wh":[5.771,6.299,6.291,6.216,6.334,5.914,6.398,6.352],"wn":[27,17,28,47,30,34,21,29],"el":{"lack_or_harm":1,"test":6,"revelation":7,"reward":8},"g":"knowledge","c":"closed","rb":"wit","sl":3,"a":{"kn":1,"pk":"human","ro":"hero","go":"achieved","n":6,"one":0,"rep":2,"ud":0,"con":1,"ss":0,"ch":0,"su":0,"x":{"supernatural":3,"deserved":8,"moral_stated":1}},"hj":{"c":"200200000001220001000010002","sg":"100300000004440005000040007","nt":{"ordinary_life":"junior monk under an elder, meditating four months vainly","mentor_aid":"the Master gives him a lotus to watch, then a stanza","father":"the Master acknowledges his insight; monk pays him reverence","apotheosis":"mind’s eyes opened; he becomes an Arahat","boon":"the monk attains Arahatship","return":"his elder takes him back with him that evening","freedom":"delivered from future lives, though text ends on another tale","revelation":"hidden motive behind the horse’s refusal is found out"},"V":3,"Vl":4,"trip":0,"stay":0,"tripl":0,"wo":"none","lv":"none","bn":"knowledge","sx":"male"},"src":["Buddhist birth stories; 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