Motif
spirits of the dead as sickness agents
spirits_of_the_dead_as_sickness_agents
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
andamanese
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The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology CHAPTER IV / MYTHS AND LEGENDS / CHAPTER V / THE INTERPRETATION OF ANDAMANESE CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS: CEREMONIAL; lines 10508-10590 confidence: medium
Sickness is believed to be caused by supernatural beings called Lau or Čauga, spirits of the dead; food danger is sometimes said to involve attack by spirits.
The passage states that sickness is believed to be caused by Lau or Čauga, spirits of the dead, and that food danger may be an attack by spirits.
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