Motif
Dead children's apparition reveals hidden remains
dead_children_s_apparition_reveals_hidden_remains
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Ghostly Signs, Warnings, and Revelations. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
hawaiian
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Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends AS HEIAU BUILDERS / KAHALAOPUNA, PRINCESS OF MANOA / THE PUNAHOU SPRING / OAHUNUI; lines 3641-3730 confidence: high
While Lehuanui sleeps at Waialua, he seems to see his two sons. The eldest says they have been cooked and eaten by the King, with skulls in a net on a lehua-tree and bones buried by a root.
The sons appear or seem to appear to Lehuanui in sleep, tell him they were eaten, and identify where their skulls and bones are hidden; he verifies this at dawn.
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