Motif
Hostile sending of illness against a community
hostile_sending_of_illness_against_a_community
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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finnish karelian
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Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 22655-22841 confidence: high
Louhi banishes the other fatal creatures to remote oceanic places and sends them to Wainola and Kalevala; the people become sick and dying with severe new diseases.
Louhi sends the disease-children against Wainola and Kalevala, after which the community becomes sick and dying.
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