Motif
Jealous dead spouse causing illness
jealous_dead_spouse_causing_illness
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
arctic inuit
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Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory TURNER / RELIGION, / TURNER, / TURNE!; lines 2640-2836 confidence: high
A widow married to a Koksoak Eskimo is accused by the shaman of causing his illness because the spirit of her deceased husband is jealous; the shaman says the sick man will not recover unless she is cast off.
A shaman explains a man’s sickness as caused by the jealous spirit of his wife’s deceased husband.
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