Motif
vengeful dead mother becomes ghostly avenger
vengeful_dead_mother_becomes_ghostly_avenger
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Vengeance, Crime Revelation, and Posthumous Retribution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
inuit
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Eskimo Folk-Tales THE INLAND-DWELLERS OF ETAH / THE MAN WHO STABBED HIS WIFE IN THE LEG / THE SOUL THAT LIVED IN THE BODIES OF ALL BEASTS / PAPIK, WHO KILLED HIS WIFE'S BROTHER; lines 3800-3897 confidence: high
The old woman prepares to die as a ghost to avenge her son, covers herself with a bearskin coverlet, sits on the shore, and lets the tide cover her.
Ailaq's mother explicitly prepares to die so she can avenge her son as a ghost, and the ending states that she took vengeance.
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