Motif
Abandoned newborn placed in animal den during flight
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A motif of the Miraculous Child and Sacred Birth family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northeast woodlands
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Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths HBWITT / HSWITTJ / BBWITTJ / TRADITIONS; lines 19333-19429 confidence: high
During a cold nighttime uproar, villagers flee; a woman who had given birth two days earlier carries her infant as a bundle, drops it into a tree hole that is a bear's den, and the old bear finds it.
During the village flight, a mother places her two-day-old infant in a tree hole that is a bear's den, where the old bear finds it.
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