Motif
animal helping spirits rescue the threatened traveler
animal_helping_spirits_rescue_the_threatened_traveler
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 WOMAN WITH THE IRON TAIL / HOW THE FOG CAME / THE MAN WHO AVENGED THE WIDOWS / THE MAN WHO WENT OUT TO SEARCH FOR HIS SON; lines 3292-3365 confidence: high
The man is described as a great wizard, calls killer whales as helping spirits, and they crush the house and kill the giant before he continues searching.
The traveler calls killer whales as his helping spirits when a giant wants to eat him, and they crush the house and kill the giant.
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