Motif
Restless ghost widows searching for lost husbands
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Returning Kin and Continuing Domestic Bonds. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
australian aboriginal
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The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia CHAPTER XV / THE AMUSEMENTS OF BLACKS / CHAPTER XVI / BUSH BOGIES AND FINIS; lines 5566-5665 confidence: high
At Weawarra, two slain young husbands are missing; their widows search, disappear, and are said to haunt the plain by silently entering camps at night and vanishing before dawn.
The Weawarra widows search for missing slain husbands, disappear, and return as silent spirits who renew their search nightly.
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