Motif
dead kin among spirit visitors and guides
dead_kin_among_spirit_visitors_and_guides
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
arctic inuit
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The People of the Polar North: A Record THE RAVEN AND THE GOOSE / ELIAS, A WEST GREENLANDER / THE BOY WHO WENT TO THE LAND OF SPIRITS / A WEST GREENLANDIC STORY-TELLER; lines 12882-12973 confidence: high
When Qalanganguase is left alone while others go seal-catching, the house shakes, many spirits drop down, and the last is recognized as his recently dead sister; the spirits play, wrestle, tell stories, and laugh.
Qalanganguase encounters his recently dead sister among the visiting spirits, and later his dead parents guide him to the house of revenants.
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