Motif
Animal-barked waves as weapons in battle
animal_barked_waves_as_weapons_in_battle
A motif of the Divine Warrior and Sacred Combat family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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Eskimo Folk-Tales THE DWARFS / THE RAVEN AND THE GOOSE / WHEN THE RAVENS COULD SPEAK / MAKITE; lines 2581-2697 confidence: high
The old man tells Makite to look west because inland-dwellers are coming; a great black thing approaches, the dwarfs take positions against them, and the inland folk's dog barks, sending a wave that becomes small near the dwarfs.
Both sides' dogs bark in connection with waves of water; the inland folk's wave shrinks, while the dwarfs' wave drowns most of the inland folk.
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