Motif
Bereaved spouse follows the dead through self-starvation
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing 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 KNUD RASMUSSEN. / PART I / COUNT HARALD MOLTKE'S ARRIVAL AT AGPAT; lines 752-837 confidence: high
The narration says this was Sagdloq's last great inspiration and that his wife died when summer came.
After his wife dies, Sagdloq says life is no longer good, that it is best he follow her, and then refuses food until he dies.
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