Motif
goat-formed woodland spirit
goat_formed_woodland_spirit
A motif of the Otherworld and Enchanted Realm family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 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 920-982 confidence: high
Dionysus is represented as goat and bull; Pan, Satyrs, Silenus, and Fauns are described with goat features, goat-skins, or half-goat form.
The passage repeatedly groups Pans, Satyrs, Fauns, and Ljeschie as goat-formed spirits of woods and applies the same pattern to Dionysus as tree-god in goat form.
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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 920-982 confidence: high
Pan has goat face and legs; Satyrs have goat features or are played in goat-skins; Silenus is clad in goat-skin; Fauns are half goats with goat-feet and goat-horns.
Multiple Greek, Italian, and Russian figures are described as woodland beings with goat features or goat associations; Frazer explicitly groups Pans, Satyrs, and Fauns as a widely diffused class of goat-formed wood-spirits.
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