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   XPost: alt.mythology, alt.folklore, alt.religion   
   XPost: talk.religion.misc   
   From: joe@somewhere.example   
      
   On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 02:25:04 -0230, David Dalton wrote:   
      
   > Some examples of thorns in religion, mythology, folklore and history   
   > that I know of are:   
   >   
   > 1. the thorn bush of Moses 2. the crown of thorns of Jesus (plus the   
   > thorns around the heart of Jesus in the old Catholic Sacred Heart of   
   > Jesus picture)   
   > 3. the piercing of hands and feet mentioned in the Old Testament 4. the   
   > self-sacrifice of Quetzalcoatl on thorns 5. the hedge of thorns that the   
   > hero has to burst through in the original Sleeping Beauty story 6. the   
   > wall of thorns in the Pied Piper story 7. the “dragon-demon’s thorns”   
   in   
   > a poem by Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama   
   >   
   > Do you know of any other instances?   
   >   
   > I suspect that the spear and tree in Havamal 138 and the boar’s tusks   
   > that wounded Adonis may also have been thorns.   
      
   There's also the thorn in the lion's paw in the story of Androcles.   
      
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