Motif
Child adopted by a being inside water
child_adopted_by_a_being_inside_water
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.
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1 traditions
native american plains
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Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians TALES OF SUPERNATURAL PATRONS . 152 / HISTORICAL TRADITIONS . / INTRODUCTION. / HERO TALES.; lines 3955-4050 confidence: medium
Curtain-boy goes to the spring and calls his brother; Spring-boy asks the being inside the spring who had adopted him, then comes out to play and eat meat in the lodge.
Spring-boy lives in or emerges from the spring and consults a being inside it whom he calls father and who had adopted him.
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