Motif
Quarantine or destruction of arrivals and foreign goods
quarantine_or_destruction_of_arrivals_and_foreign_goods
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Purification and Pollution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 3892-3959 confidence: high
Savage Island natives killed strangers in distress and their own returning people out of dread of disease, and later quarantined ship goods by hanging them in the bush for weeks.
The Savage Island example describes killing strangers and returning islanders out of dread of disease and hanging ship goods in the bush for weeks before use.
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