Motif
healing or protection by the spirit that causes injury
healing_or_protection_by_the_spirit_that_causes_injury
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Healing and Provision. 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. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 446-522 confidence: high
Near Grenoble, a decorated live goat is chased and caught; the farmer's wife holds it while the farmer beheads it; the flesh is eaten, some preserved until the next harvest, and the skin is made into a cloak worn in bad weather or lent to reapers with back pain.
Back pains and wounds connected with reaping are treated or prevented by goat-skin, a cat representative of the corn-spirit, or first ears from the crop.
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