Motif
dead beings protest that they cannot die twice
dead_beings_protest_that_they_cannot_die_twice
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Dead Giants, Childbirth Spirits, and Deathless Dead. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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afro caribbean
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Jamaica Anansi Stories DANCE AND SONG. / WITTICISMS. / OLD-TIME FOOLS. / DUPPY STORIES.; lines 8896-8932 confidence: high
A drayman travels with a dray of sugar and trailing molasses; two duppies suck the molasses, wonder about the sugar, are struck by the drayman’s whip, and run off crying, “Me dead one time, me can’t dead two time.”
After being whipped, the duppies cry that they are dead one time and cannot die two times.
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