Motif
Man-killing trees containing the dead
man_killing_trees_containing_the_dead
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
native american northwest coast
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect THE ONE ABANDONED FOR EATING THE FLIPPER OF A HAIR SEAL / SACRED-ONE-STANDING-AND-MOVING, STONE-RIBS, AND UPWARD / SUPERNATURAL-BEING-WHO-WENT-NAKED / HE-WHO-GOT-SUPERNATURAL-POWER-FROM-HIS-LITTLE-FINGER; lines 11381-11457 confidence: high
The chief sends the young man to fetch bark from a tree with sliding bark; the young man wakes inside the tree, wishes it would break, and resuscitates the people whose bones fall out.
Both the moving-bark tree and the alder enclose the young man and contain people or bones of people they had killed.
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