Motif
unavenged dead haunting the living until revenge
unavenged_dead_haunting_the_living_until_revenge
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.
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1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER X / CHAPTER XI / CHAPTER XII / CHAPTER XIII; lines 5711-5803 confidence: high
Homicide is treated as a wrong to tribe or family; accidental homicide can lead to blood-feud, may be attributed to a neighbouring medicine-man’s witchcraft, and the dead man’s spirit is believed to haunt until avenged.
The passage states that the dead man’s spirit haunts the tribe, especially the nearest relative, until his blood has been avenged.
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