Motif
Angered discarded doll appeased to restore child survival
angered_discarded_doll_appeased_to_restore_child_survival
A motif of the Sacred Exchange and Reciprocity family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
ainu
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Aino Folk-Tales INTRODUCTION. / AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES.; lines 1299-1389 confidence: medium
A variant says repeated child deaths were caused by anger from a discarded bird-shaped wooden doll; household objects discuss it, firewood warns the husband in a dream, the doll is found and honored with divine symbols, and a later child survives.
The variant links child deaths to the discarded bird-shaped doll's anger, then has the doll found and honored before a child survives.
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