Motif
animal feigns death or sleep
animal_feigns_death_or_sleep
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american great lakes
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Chippewa Music BUEEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY / I : 1 I / P P P / P P P; lines 26481-26547 confidence: high
The note says one version has the words "e'sibun is dead" and represents the coon as feigning death; another version uses words translated as "e'sibun cringes" and explains that the coon pretended to be asleep.
The passage explicitly preserves two story-linked explanations: the coon feigns death in one version and pretends to be asleep in another.
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