Motif
animal avenger that distinguishes guilty from innocent
animal_avenger_that_distinguishes_guilty_from_innocent
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
arctic inuit
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The People of the Polar North: A Record ELIAS, A WEST GREENLANDER / THE BOY WHO WENT TO THE LAND OF SPIRITS / A WEST GREENLANDIC STORY-TELLER / THE TWO BROTHERS; lines 13149-13273 confidence: high
The revived woman asks to go home. Before departing, the man unharnesses the outside-right dog and tells it that he has no other avenger and that it should kill the cursed pair.
The man releases a dog as his avenger; the dog refuses to kill the innocent, searches the crowd, and attacks the identified pair.
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