Motif
avenging spirit denied its victim by prior sickness
avenging_spirit_denied_its_victim_by_prior_sickness
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
arctic inuit
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The People of the Polar North: A Record VERY COLD ON GUARD / PAUTUS6RSSUAQ, WHO MURDERED HIS UNCLE / THE WIFE-CHANGERS / ALAQATSIAQ : BOY OF TEN; lines 5247-5311 confidence: medium
Many fall ill; Navssarssuaq dies of sickness, so the avenging spirit has no chance to tear him to pieces.
The passage says sickness kills Navssarssuaq, leaving the avenging spirit no opportunity to tear him to pieces.
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