Motif
Illness caused by dream or soul absence
illness_caused_by_dream_or_soul_absence
A motif of the Soul Loss and Restoration family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
andamanese
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The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology CHAPTER II / CEREMONIAL CUSTOMS / CHAPTER III / RELIGIOUS AND MAGICAL BELIEFS; lines 6321-6411 confidence: high
An Andamanese person will not, or only reluctantly will, wake another from sleep because the sleeper's double may be far from the body and sudden waking may cause illness.
Bad or painful dreams may be treated as causes of sickness, and waking a sleeper while the double is away may cause illness.
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