Motif
Animal vision confirming ritual identity
animal_vision_confirming_ritual_identity
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american plains
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Traditions of the Arikara FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 8145-8195 confidence: medium
White-Bear has visions of a bear in the medicine-lodge, is encouraged to remain there, and is later identified as the present adult man with a large belly scar, a Bear by birth, though Bear dances have ceased.
White-Bear reports visions of a bear in the medicine-lodge, and the narrator is glad and encourages him to remain there.
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