Motif
Animal familiar grants strength with reciprocal vulnerability and food taboo
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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.
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australian aboriginal
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The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia CHAPTER III / RELATIONSHIPS AND TOTEMS / CHAPTER IV / THE MEDICINE MEN; lines 1771-1881 confidence: high
A wirreenun may keep Wundah spirits and a yunbeai in the Minggah; yunbeai are individual animal spirits or familiars that can give strength but create danger because injury to the animal hurts the person.
The yunbeai gives strength but creates danger because injury to the animal hurts the person, and the person must not eat that animal’s flesh.
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