Motif
survivors return after winter destruction
survivors_return_after_winter_destruction
A motif of the Flood, Fire, and Cosmic Renewal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american plains
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Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians INTRODUCTION. / HERO TALES. / TALES OF SUPERNATURAL PATRONS. / MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 11917-12013 confidence: medium
After snow has gone from tents, an unnamed woman makes a small elk-hide tent, suggests finding the camp, and the group says the people are destroyed and they alone are living.
The fragment describes survivors in spring believing others were destroyed, returning to camp, and finding dead relatives and collapsed tents.
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