Motif
Animal helper becomes a community hunter-provider
animal_helper_becomes_a_community_hunter_provider
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
inuit
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Eskimo Folk-Tales THE COMING OF MEN, A LONG, LONG WHILE AGO / QUJAVARSSUK / KUNIGSEQ / THE WOMAN WHO HAD A BEAR AS A FOSTER-SON; lines 1484-1628 confidence: high
Hunters invite the bear to join them in hunting and instruct it to keep downwind so the game will not scent it.
The fostered bear joins human hunters, reliably catches seal, and provides shares of its catch to others.
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