Motif
Deadly light defeated by shielding and deception
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A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
australian aboriginal
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Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 2593-2690 confidence: high
At the same Borah, the distant Ooboon camp is feared because its chief flashes a light on strangers that kills instantly; Wahn the crow takes his biggest booreen to investigate and warns others back.
The Ooboon chief kills strangers with a flashed light; Wahn protects himself with a booreen, startles and deceives the chief, and kills him.
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