Motif
animal clan blood-feud and revenge feast
animal_clan_blood_feud_and_revenge_feast
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER XIV / CHAPTER XV / CHAPTER XVI / CHAPTER XVII; lines 7578-7659 confidence: high
Tigers are not killed wantonly because of fear of aggression from the tiger family or from the family of a medicine-man who has assumed tiger form; animals are described as capable of prolonged blood-feud with humans.
Animals are described as capable of prolonged blood-feud with humans; after a killing, the tiger is treated as a human enemy and a revenge feast of tiger-flesh may follow.
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