Motif
transformation into revenant with reported gender change
transformation_into_revenant_with_reported_gender_change
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 THE RAVEN AND THE GOOSE / ELIAS, A WEST GREENLANDER / THE BOY WHO WENT TO THE LAND OF SPIRITS / A WEST GREENLANDIC STORY-TELLER; lines 12882-12973 confidence: medium
Qalanganguase's long-dead mother and father enter, ask why he is alone, invite him to journey with them, take him to the country and house of revenants, and he becomes a revenant; the passage adds that he became a woman when changed into a spirit and was never found by the villagers.
After being taken to the house of revenants, Qalanganguase becomes a revenant and is said to become a woman when changed into a spirit.
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