Motif
Dream-spirit loss, capture, and recovery
dream_spirit_loss_capture_and_recovery
A motif of the Soul Loss and Restoration family, within the sub-family Dream and Sleep Soul Departure. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
australian aboriginal
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The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia CHAPTER III / RELATIONSHIPS AND TOTEMS / CHAPTER IV / THE MEDICINE MEN; lines 1653-1769 confidence: high
A distant wirreenun can send his Mullee Mullee dream spirit to interview friendly spirits; a sick person's Doowee may have been captured, and the healer tries to get it back.
Dream spirits leave sleeping bodies; enemies may capture or injure them, producing sickness, tiredness, or death, and the healer may try to recover the sick person's Doowee.
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