Motif
Death omen produced by ritual failure or contact with the Death figure
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A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Death and Doom Omens. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 5554-5653 confidence: medium
The Death effigy is often feared and treated with hatred or contempt; in Lusatia, if it looks into a house someone there is believed to die unless redeemed by money, and bearers may run home lest Death follow them.
The passage reports omens that someone in a house may die if the effigy looks in, that a fallen bearer may die, or that the boy who fails to enter the water or enters last will die within the year.
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