Motif
Ritual combat with invisible foes
ritual_combat_with_invisible_foes
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Cosmic and Supernatural Combat. 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. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 3748-3829 confidence: high
On the Barwan River, an annual Australian ceremony features singing with boomerangs, a painted and feathered man looking for ghosts, performers flourishing a branch and battling invisible foes, and satisfaction that ghosts were driven away for twelve months.
The Australian ceremony describes performers flourishing a branch and joining conflict with invisible or mysterious assailants identified as ghosts.
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