Motif
bone-hole tale with oral performance emphasis
bone_hole_tale_with_oral_performance_emphasis
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
afro caribbean
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Jamaica Anansi Stories RIDDLES. / INDEX TO RIDDLES. / ABBREVIATIONS OF TITLES. / NOTES.; lines 11493-11617 confidence: medium
The bone-hole story is said to work better in oral action than on paper; a Ballard’s Valley John-Crow version ends with boiling water making John-Crow permanently bald, and performance involved dialogue, voice changes, and pantomime.
The passage describes the bone-hole story as better in action than on paper and notes performance features such as dialogue, voice changes, and pantomime.
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