Motif
animal-quality charm for invulnerability or elusiveness
animal_quality_charm_for_invulnerability_or_elusiveness
A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) PREFACE. / J. G. FRAZER. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY.; lines 517-565 confidence: high
Examples are given of Bechuana people wearing a ferret, a mutilated living insect, ox hair, and frog skin as charms to gain life-tenacity, protection, slipperiness, or uncatchability.
Ferret, insect, ox hair, and frog skin charms are worn to gain qualities such as tenacity of life, difficulty to kill, slipperiness, or difficulty to catch.
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