Motif
buried-alive decoy exposes a supernatural thief
buried_alive_decoy_exposes_a_supernatural_thief
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser 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 THE GLUTTON / ISERAQ, WHO STOLE / ARNALUK, THE STORY-TELLER / THE ORIGIN OF THE FOG; lines 7413-7477 confidence: high
A hill spirit fetches bodies from graves and eats them; a man has himself buried alive to discover the thief, and the spirit opens the new grave and drags off the body.
The man intentionally has himself buried alive so that the grave thief will take him and reveal itself.
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