Motif
offended skull becomes dead suitor
offended_skull_becomes_dead_suitor
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.
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1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 12392-12490 confidence: high
A chief's daughter of the cohoes people, kept pure and accompanied by a servant, trips over a skull near her father's house, kicks it aside, and returns frightened.
The girl kicks aside a skull, and that night the dead youth whose skull it was comes to her and becomes her husband.
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