Motif
escape instructions in a chase-warning song
escape_instructions_in_a_chase_warning_song
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
native american southeast
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Myths of the Cherokee SECOND VERSION / SECOND VERSION / WAHNENAUHI VERSION / VI--NOTES AND PARALLELS TO MYTHS; lines 25953-26080 confidence: medium
The Mother Bear songs were obtained from Ayâsta and Swimmer; the first song is said to have an exact Creek parallel in the Tuggle manuscript’s Baby Songs.
The Creek parallel song instructs flight up or down a stream relative to the chase and then to a high mountain.
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