Motif
animal pursuers repelled by spilled substance
animal_pursuers_repelled_by_spilled_substance
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 CLOUD-WATCHER / STORY OF THE HOUSE-POINT FAMILIES / STORIES OF THE PITCH-PEOPLE / HOW ONE WAS HELPED BY A LITTLE WOLF; lines 15220-15245 confidence: high
The male figure returns to the place where he had gone down, enters his canoe, finds the canoe caretaker aged, flees from killer whales, and spills blue hellebore to make them sink away before coming with his wife to Qꜝadō′.
Killer whales pursue and nearly upset the canoe; when blue hellebore is spilled out, they sink away, and this action is repeated.
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