Motif
communal destruction of a dangerous spirit
communal_destruction_of_a_dangerous_spirit
A motif of the Sacrifice and Offering family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
arctic inuit
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The People of the Polar North: A Record BAD SPIRITS / IMERARSUNGUAQ, AN ESKIMO HOST AT HOME / THE MIDDEN SPIRIT / THE EARTH SPIRIT WHOM THE GIRLS TEASED; lines 5386-5408 confidence: high
The spirit eats the stone; while it is occupied, the other girl finishes the hole in the back wall, and the girls escape to their village and tell what happened.
After the girls tell the village what happened, men bind, drag, and kill the spirit.
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