Motif
dead children as witnesses against a parent
dead_children_as_witnesses_against_a_parent
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning 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 INFANTICIDE / INFANTICIDE / INFANTICIDE / INFANTICIDE; lines 9674-9714 confidence: medium
An angel brings three children with broken necks and hanging heads; they run to the man, clasp his knees, call him father, and the Judge condemns him.
The three dead children appear bodily marked by injury, identify the man as father, and thereby convict him.
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