Motif
Drum-and-song spirit conjuration
drum_and_song_spirit_conjuration
A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound 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 KNUD RASMUSSEN. / PART I / COUNT HARALD MOLTKE'S ARRIVAL AT AGPAT; lines 608-750 confidence: high
The narrator looks through the window and sees Sagdloq alone on the raised stone sleeping-place, beating a drum; Sagdloq stops and calls the matter foolery, humbug, and lies.
Sagdloq beats a drum, sings or produces a spirit song, and is supported by listeners during a spirit-conjuring ceremony.
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