Motif
Child water-sprinkling rite
child_water_sprinkling_rite
A motif of the Sacred Waters and Passage Through Water family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
norse
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The Poetic Edda HOVAMOL / THE BALLAD OF THE HIGH ONE / INTRODUCTORY NOTE / NOTES; lines 2879-2950 confidence: medium
"The sprinkling of a child with water was an established custom long before Christianity brought its conception of baptism."
The note describes sprinkling a child with water as an established custom predating Christian baptism.
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