Motif
dangerous track avoidance
dangerous_track_avoidance
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Taboo and Ritual Restriction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
indigenous australian
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Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies COLLECTED BY MRS. K. LANGLOH PARKER / WITH INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG, M.A. / CONTENTS / PREFACE; lines 127-224 confidence: medium
Some older people remember Major Mitchell, called Mitchellan; mothers feared first wheel tracks and lifted children over them, comparing the danger to sores from treading on a snake's track; the legends were told to children around camp-fires.
Mothers avoid letting children tread on first-seen wheel tracks, with the danger explained by analogy to treading on a snake's track and developing sores.
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