Motif
Child detects the disguised adult
child_detects_the_disguised_adult
A motif of the Recognition Tokens and Identity Proofs 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 WAR BETWEEN THE WEST COAST HAIDA AND THE TLINGIT / ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS / RAVEN TRAVELING / A-SLENDER-ONE-WHO-WAS-GIVEN-AWAY; lines 7354-7456 confidence: medium
The chief orders wood put on the fire and calls the people; when a crying child is handed to the disguised figure, the child runs away, and the passage states: “It was sucking a man.”
A child rejects the disguised figure’s teat and runs crying, with the passage explaining that the child was sucking a man rather than its mother.
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