Motif
Tabooed kin threatened by the slain person's ghost
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A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Purification and Pollution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 4345-4378 confidence: high
In the Pelew Islands, after a head is carried off in a raid, the slain man's relations are tabooed and must observe rules to escape his ghost's wrath.
In the Pelew example, the slain man's relations are tabooed and observe restrictions to escape the wrath of his ghost.
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