Motif
Defeated attacking groups revealed as animal beings
defeated_attacking_groups_revealed_as_animal_beings
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect A-SLENDER-ONE-WHO-WAS-GIVEN-AWAY / THE ONE ABANDONED FOR EATING THE FLIPPER OF A HAIR SEAL / SACRED-ONE-STANDING-AND-MOVING, STONE-RIBS, AND UPWARD / SUPERNATURAL-BEING-WHO-WENT-NAKED; lines 10481-10587 confidence: high
After another warning, ten canoes with red bows arrive by sea; the grandfather tells him to have î′nłîñ pulled and spread before them, their eyes roll upward, and they are identified as silver salmon.
Successive canoe-borne attackers are identified after defeat as silver salmon, dog salmon, sand fleas, and fleas.
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