Motif
feeding and ritual dismissal of the dead
feeding_and_ritual_dismissal_of_the_dead
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 4265-4343 confidence: medium
Old Prussians and Lithuanians invited the deceased's soul to meals on the third, sixth, ninth, and fortieth days, used no knives, left fallen morsels for lonely souls, and a priest swept the souls out, saying, “Dear souls, ye have eaten and drunk. Go forth, go forth.”
Old Prussians and Lithuanians invited the soul of the deceased to a meal, left food for lonely souls, and then had a priest sweep the souls out of the house.
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