Motif
Animal-dwelling destruction followed by drowning retribution
animal_dwelling_destruction_followed_by_drowning_retribution
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 11075-11159 confidence: high
People find a lake with many beaver houses, drain it by trench, break the houses, and kill beavers swimming down the trench, except for a very large beaver that escapes into the woods.
People drain the beaver lake and kill the beavers; afterward they hear a song at the broken dam, drown on the way home, and missing bodies are said to be captured by the big beaver.
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