Motif
dreams as omens of future events
dreams_as_omens_of_future_events
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
malagasy
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Madagascar Before the Conquest: The Island, the Country, and the People CURIOUS WORDS AND CUSTOMS AMONG THE MALAGASY. I73 / CHAPTER IX. / MALAGASY FOLK-LORE AND POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. / SOME ADDITIONAL FOLK-LORE.; lines 8102-8191 confidence: high
The Malagasy are said to notice dreams, regard them as signs of future events, seek natural causes for troubling dreams, and use seasonal sayings to console the heart after an evil dream.
The passage explicitly states that Malagasy people regard dreams as signs of what will happen and then gives many dream-outcome pairings.
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