Motif
abundance lost through misplaced trust
abundance_lost_through_misplaced_trust
A motif of the Betrayal and Violated Trust family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american plains
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Traditions of the Arikara FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 6529-6591 confidence: high
Fox tells his story to every animal he meets; all the living animals gather and, while Coyote sleeps, enter and eat everything he has in his lodge.
Coyote's stored meat is taken by the animals, and the closing statement explicitly warns not to trust friends when one has plenty.
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