Motif
despised stranger aided by the least-favored servant
despised_stranger_aided_by_the_least_favored_servant
A motif of the Hospitality Test and Stranger Guest 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 10044-10151 confidence: high
The first servant recoils, the middle one says to throw him out with a stick, and the lame last servant says to handle him carefully because whale soup will strengthen him; they use a salmon-berry stalk and put him in the bailing hole.
The first and middle servants reject the floating figure, while the lame servant urges careful handling, retrieves him after he is forgotten, and becomes his confidante.
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