Bridle
The bridle denotes restraint and self-command, especially temperance and curbed speech, while also sharing the horse’s fertility associations.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Brazilian folklore (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Headless Mule bears Brazilian folklore
why
… a brave individual removes the bridle from the mule's mouth …