Motif
dead soul punishes the living
dead_soul_punishes_the_living
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
arctic inuit
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The People of the Polar North: A Record ESKIMO TYPES / QULUTINGUAQ, A WELL-KNOWN ESKIMO GUIDE / RELIGIOUS BELIEFS / TONGIGUAQ, WIFE OF QULUTINGUAQ; lines 4915-5021 confidence: high
Fear is directed toward uncertainty, fate, torments leading to death, and souls of the dead, which can be angered and punish the living with failed fishery or hunting and painful illnesses.
Souls of the dead may be angered by acts of the living and punish people with failed subsistence or illness; a dead man’s soul avenges itself on a murderer.
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