Motif
Animal disguise enables successful hunt
animal_disguise_enables_successful_hunt
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 occurrences
1 traditions
native american plains
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Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians TALES OF SUPERNATURAL PATRONS . 152 / HISTORICAL TRADITIONS . / INTRODUCTION. / HERO TALES.; lines 6956-7058 confidence: high
The Reformed Idler is introduced as idle; his father strikes his shinbone and complains no one will seek meat from him; his mother intervenes; the boy asks for a deer-horn buckskin mask painted with white clay.
The boy uses a deer-horn buckskin mask so deer mistake him for a deer, allowing him to kill them.
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Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians TALES OF SUPERNATURAL PATRONS . 152 / HISTORICAL TRADITIONS . / INTRODUCTION. / HERO TALES.; lines 7021-7123 confidence: high
The young man has his mother make deer horns for a buckskin mask, paints it white, takes his father’s gun and knife, waits at a salty lake, and kills deer that mistake him for a deer; after three days his father tells him to stop.
The boy uses a horned, white-painted buckskin mask so deer mistake him for a deer, allowing him to kill them at the salty lake.
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