Motif
Encounter with a spirit at a mortuary place
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Haunted Places, Dwellings, and Burial Sites. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
hawaiian
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Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends THE PUNAHOU SPRING / OAHUNUI / AHUULA / A LEGEND OF KANIKANIAULA AND THE FIRST FEATHER CLOAK; lines 3750-3851 confidence: high
Near Olowalu and Aalaloloa, Eleio sees a beautiful young woman ahead; she stays beyond his reach and leads him over rocks, hills, mountains, ravines, precipices, and dark streams toward Hanamanuloa.
Eleio pursues a woman to a puoa; she identifies herself as a spirit, and her body is later found within the puoa.
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