Motif
Nocturnal spirit disturbance repelled by sound and chant
nocturnal_spirit_disturbance_repelled_by_sound_and_chant
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
chaco amerindian
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An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: An Account of the Life and Customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco PRIMITIVE INDIAN LIFE / PRIMITIVE INDIAN LIFE / PRIMITIVE INDIAN LIFE / PRIMITIVE INDIAN LIFE; lines 2531-2570 confidence: medium
A man wakes with a cry, rattles his gourd, chants, and seeks to scare off the spirit that disturbed his sleep.
The passage states that a man wakes after a spirit disturbs his sleep and uses a gourd rattle and chanting to scare it off.
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