Motif
Dangerous offspring from bear-human union
dangerous_offspring_from_bear_human_union
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 2737-2778 confidence: medium
Kātsǃ pities one child and lifts it; on the next inlet visit the cubs seize and throw him to their mother, killing him; they scatter over the world and are reportedly killed in various places.
The cubs kill Kātsǃ after he violates the prohibition, scatter over the world, and one later attacks people at White Stone Narrows before being killed.
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