Motif
animal-marked lure or trap
animal_marked_lure_or_trap
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 northwest coast
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect THE ONE ABANDONED FOR EATING THE FLIPPER OF A HAIR SEAL / SACRED-ONE-STANDING-AND-MOVING, STONE-RIBS, AND UPWARD / SUPERNATURAL-BEING-WHO-WENT-NAKED / HE-WHO-GOT-SUPERNATURAL-POWER-FROM-HIS-LITTLE-FINGER; lines 11886-11992 confidence: medium
The brothers set deadfalls with ground-hog figures on the posts; the figures call targets, one is caught, and the wife holds the man back when a ground hog looks out of the house.
Deadfalls have ground-hog figures that call victims, a trail snare is marked by a hanging feather, and a slippery stone with a feather causes the elder brothers’ deaths when they try to pull it off.
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