Motif
Dangerous entrance into feared territory
dangerous_entrance_into_feared_territory
A motif of the The Hero's Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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chaco amerindian
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An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: An Account of the Life and Customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco RUMOURS / RUMOURS / CHAPTER II / DANGERS OF ENTRANCE; lines 859-890 confidence: medium
Henricksen, founder of the Paraguayan Chaco Mission, is strongly urged by Paraguayans to take an offered military guard on his upriver journey; he refuses and does not enter Indian country.
The chapter section frames entry into Indian country as dangerous; Henricksen is urged to take a guard, and the narrator later describes solitary travel among the nomads as fraught with danger.
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