Motif
captivity among animal people with instruction by prior captive
captivity_among_animal_people_with_instruction_by_prior_captive
A motif of the Otherworld and Enchanted Realm family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / MYTHS RECORDED IN ENGLISH AT WRANGELL; lines 6302-6377 confidence: high
Bear people watch the girl, cover her tracks, and notice dentalium shells left in them; she learns from an old woman to use wet wood for fire among these different people.
The girl lives among bear people, struggles with their firewood custom, and receives help from an old woman who says the same thing happened to her.
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