Motif
fear of the returning spirit
fear_of_the_returning_spirit
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER X / CHAPTER XI / CHAPTER XII / CHAPTER XIII; lines 5904-5912 confidence: high
The author suggests that concern over cannibal customs as insults to the dead may explain absence of grave signs and house burial as protection, even though belief in a dangerous returning spirit would seem to support extramural burial.
The passage states that the people recognize danger in the spirit’s return.
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