Motif
Child nursed by dead mother
child_nursed_by_dead_mother
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american plains
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Traditions of the Arikara FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 2174-2271 confidence: high
The boy, about five or six, stays near his dead mother, nurses under the robe for many days, then goes west into squash and corn fields and eats raw corn.
After the woman is killed, the boy returns in the evenings, crawls under the robe, and nurses at his mother's breast for many days.
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