Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

animal-caused bodily vulnerability

animal_caused_bodily_vulnerability

A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


inuit

  • Eskimo Folk-Tales ATUNGAIT, WHO WENT A-WANDERING / KUMAGDLAK AND THE LIVING ARROWS / THE GIANT DOG / THE INLAND-DWELLERS OF ETAH; lines 3569-3611 confidence: medium

    The inland-dwellers scream with fear at the dogs, push out an old woman, hide, and the old woman dies of fright when she sees the dogs.

    Dogs cause the old woman to die of fright and cause blood to spring from the inland husband's eyes at their sight.

    read in the book