Motif
marriage to a dead man visible as a skull
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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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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 12392-12490 confidence: high
That night two dead chiefs' sons come to the girl; the elder is identified as the skull she kicked, and she marries him. The two dead youths had died together and travel in company.
The girl marries the elder dead chief's son; he looks like a fine young man to her but appears as a skull to everyone else.
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