Motif
Cave-dwelling destroyer with bones at the den
cave_dwelling_destroyer_with_bones_at_the_den
A motif of the Threshold Guardian 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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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect THE ONE ABANDONED FOR EATING THE FLIPPER OF A HAIR SEAL / SACRED-ONE-STANDING-AND-MOVING, STONE-RIBS, AND UPWARD / SUPERNATURAL-BEING-WHO-WENT-NAKED / HE-WHO-GOT-SUPERNATURAL-POWER-FROM-HIS-LITTLE-FINGER; lines 11567-11674 confidence: high
The mother says a supernatural being at the south end of the island destroyed the children's uncles. The children visit and find it living in a cave with a pile of human bones before it.
A supernatural being lives in a cave with a pile of human bones before it and is said to have destroyed the children's uncles.
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