Motif
Bereaved mother's dying curse
bereaved_mother_s_dying_curse
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family, within the sub-family Retributive and Dying Curses. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
indigenous australian
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Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 2689-2774 confidence: high
Millindooloonubbah, a widow, enters crying that she was left to travel alone with many children; at each water hole she found only mud after the others drank the water, and her children died one by one for want of a drink.
Millindooloonubbah, after describing her children's deaths from thirst, drinks water, rises for a final effort, curses the tribes, and dies.
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