Motif
eat-all feast requiring total consumption
eat_all_feast_requiring_total_consumption
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northeast woodlands
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Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths J LEGENDS 363 / HBWITT / HSWITTJ / BBWITTJ; lines 17155-17245 confidence: high
Okteondon invites all Dagwanoenyents to an eat-all feast, commands them to consume meat, soup, and bones, and they leave no grease, fat, or bone while saying the meal was the old woman's late husband's flesh.
Okteondon repeatedly summons the Dagwanoenyents to a feast where meat, soup, bones, grease, and even bowl residues must be consumed.
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