Motif
Animal apparition speaks with the voice or identity of a deceased parent
animal_apparition_speaks_with_the_voice_or_identity_of_a_deceased_parent
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance 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 7553-7636 confidence: medium
The narrator dreams of a Bear by the grave; the Bear says, “My son, the shield was upon the grave; some one has removed it. Find it; it is yours.”
The narrator dreams of a Bear at the grave that addresses him as son and speaks about the shield; he says he always believed it was his father speaking, and later dreams directly of his father.
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