Motif
Clinging spirit contagion after contact with death or persons
clinging_spirit_contagion_after_contact_with_death_or_persons
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Purification and Pollution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3827-3890 confidence: high
In Borneo and Celebes, rice is sprinkled on a person thought infested by dangerous spirits; a fowl picks it up and thereby removes the clinging spirit or ghost, including from funeral attendees.
The passage describes ghosts or dangerous spirits as clinging to skin after funeral attendance or corpse-carrying and needing removal.
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