Motif
External life as a thread cut by the spouse
external_life_as_a_thread_cut_by_the_spouse
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS / RAVEN TRAVELING / A-SLENDER-ONE-WHO-WAS-GIVEN-AWAY / THE ONE ABANDONED FOR EATING THE FLIPPER OF A HAIR SEAL; lines 8495-8606 confidence: high
The grizzly bear asks where the human is, and the wife denies knowing. At daybreak he hunts with a big basket while the wife lets out his irregular thread of life, lets the man out, feeds him, lies with him, and hides him again when the thread jerks.
The wife lets out the grizzly bear’s thread of life when he hunts and cuts it while it unrolls, after which she marries the human.
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