Motif
Dead parents appear youthful but do not recognize the living child
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A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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Aino Folk-Tales AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES. / IV.--MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 1811-1905 confidence: high
The visitor enters a beach house and finds his dead parents youthful; they are frightened by him, set up divine symbols, and pray for the evil spirit to depart. He leaves through the cavern and loses the clinging unclean offerings only after returning to the world of men.
The visitor finds his dead father and mother not old but in youth and strength; they respond to him with terror.
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