Motif
Body made of stone with vulnerable openings
body_made_of_stone_with_vulnerable_openings
A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness 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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Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians HISTORICAL TRADITIONS . / INTRODUCTION. / HERO TALES. / TALES OF SUPERNATURAL PATRONS.; lines 8750-8843 confidence: high
The young man explains the woman's former husband wanted to kill him; the dwarf says that man is his adopted child, was not supposed to plunder or kill, and had been made with a stone body and holes.
The dwarf says he made the hostile adopted child's body of stone with holes above the collarbone and at the rump, and later says the young man's body is also stone.
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