Motif
Blood demanding vengeance
blood_demanding_vengeance
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes NAMES OF BORO CHIEFS AND MEDICINE-MEN / WITOTO / APPENDIX VIII / FOOTNOTES; lines 11863-12008 confidence: high
The note says the idea of blood crying for vengeance is familiar and cites Cain being informed that his brother’s blood cried for vengeance from the ground.
The passage explicitly identifies the idea of blood crying for vengeance and cites Cain’s brother’s blood crying from the ground.
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