Motif
revenant revenge for murdered kin
revenant_revenge_for_murdered_kin
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
arctic inuit
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The People of the Polar North: A Record QULUTINGUAQ, A WELL-KNOWN ESKIMO GUIDE / RELIGIOUS BELIEFS / TONGIGUAQ, WIFE OF QULUTINGUAQ / PAPIK, WHO MURDERED HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW; lines 5024-5053 confidence: high
The old woman prepares herself to die, intending to avenge Ailaq as a revenant; the supplied passage ends mid-sentence.
Ailaq's mother prepares herself to die because she intends to avenge Ailaq as a revenant.
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