Motif
animal companions as spirit vessels
animal_companions_as_spirit_vessels
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
australian aboriginal
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The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia CHAPTER V / MORE ABOUT THE MEDICINE MEN AND LEECHCRAFT / CHAPTER VI / OUR WITCH WOMAN; lines 2219-2340 confidence: medium
Bootha collects items from outhouses, hides them in the underground camp, and mutters to herself and her dogs in an unknown tongue; the narrator thinks she is mad.
Bootha mutters to her dogs in an unknown tongue, and reports say spirits are present in some of the dogs.
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