Motif
Deliberately unfinished storytelling
deliberately_unfinished_storytelling
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
arctic inuit
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The People of the Polar North: A Record THE INTERIOR OF OTAQ'S HOUSE, FACING THE ENTRANCE / A POLAR HARE / PART III / MAJAQ.; lines 6324-6352 confidence: medium
The bracketed note says the fables and legends were written down during the Polar Night and told in houses after late banquets, with the storyteller talking hearers to sleep and best storytellers boasting of not finishing stories.
The best storytellers are said to boast that they have never told any story to the end.
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