Motif
dangerous spirit of the newly dead
dangerous_spirit_of_the_newly_dead
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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 A MURDEROUS ATTACK / INDIAN CLAY PIPE-BOWL. / CHAPTER XXVI / IN DANGER OF BURIAL ALIVE; lines 10523-10631 confidence: high
The narrator says their anxiety was due to fear of his spirit if he died at night and states a custom of burying a person alive before sunset if night death seemed likely.
The people fear the narrator's spirit if he dies at night and later withdraw to avoid encountering it.
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