Motif
caregiver summons a nonhuman captor to take a disobedient child
caregiver_summons_a_nonhuman_captor_to_take_a_disobedient_child
A motif of the Jealous Stepmother and Persecuted Child family, within the sub-family Expulsion, Pit Abandonment, and Supernatural Peril. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
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The Central Eskimo TALES AND TRADITIONS. / ITITAUJANG. / THE EMIGRATION OF THE SAGDLIRMIUT. / KALOPALING.; lines 8804-8869 confidence: high
When the hungry boy cries and does not obey, the grandmother angrily calls Kalopaling to take him; he enters, and she puts the boy into the large hood, where he disappears almost immediately.
The grandmother, angered by the hungry boy’s crying and disobedience, calls Kalopaling, who immediately takes the boy into his hood.
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