Motif
animal identity revealed through mimicry
animal_identity_revealed_through_mimicry
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.
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1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER XII / CHAPTER XIII / CHAPTER XIV / CHAPTER XV; lines 6657-6732 confidence: high
A failed respondent says “Jana,” becomes the questioner’s follower, imitates his antics, joins a single file burlesquing the animal answer, and the first correct guesser becomes the next questioner.
Failed respondents imitate the questioner’s antics, forming a burlesque of animal habits that clues the riddle answer.
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