Motif
Funeral or mourning rite for insects or animals
funeral_or_mourning_rite_for_insects_or_animals
A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Mourning Ritual and Funerary Practice. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 3037-3115 confidence: high
In Bali, many rice-field mice are caught and burned like corpses, but two captured mice are allowed to live, given white linen, bowed to as gods, and released.
Selected insects or mice are burned, buried, enclosed in coffins, bewailed, or mourned in several examples.
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