Motif
affinal or romantic ties overriding wartime sides
affinal_or_romantic_ties_overriding_wartime_sides
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american southeast
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Myths of the Cherokee ILLUSTRATIONS / MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE / I--INTRODUCTION / II--HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CHEROKEE; lines 1689-1773 confidence: high
Fort Loudon’s garrison is hard pressed and eats horses and dogs but is aided by Indian women who bring food daily and say the soldiers are their husbands, that helping them is their duty, and that English relatives would avenge harm to them.
Indian women supply food to besieged soldiers and justify their aid by saying the soldiers are their husbands and that aiding them is their duty.
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