batch.motif.comparative-golden-bough-volume-1-frazer-gutenberg-l11095-l11261
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record_id: batch.motif.comparative-golden-bough-volume-1-frazer-gutenberg-l11095-l11261
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.
/ FOOTNOTES; lines 11095-11261
start: '11095'
end: '11261'
translation: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: This passage consists primarily of footnotes 695-753, listing bibliographic
citations for ethnographic, classical, and folklore sources. One footnote adds
that blood may be drunk as a medium of inspiration.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
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text: The passage is a sequence of numbered footnotes citing sources on New Zealand,
Cambodia, Australia, Polynesia, Germany, Tlinkit people, Loango, Maldives, Rome,
Indonesia, Alaska, Solomon Islands, India, Central Africa, South Africa, the Yncas,
Turkey, Estonia, Patagonia, and other referenced contexts.
category: sequence
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- id: obs:2
text: A note states that blood may be drunk by unspecified persons as a medium of
inspiration.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Several footnotes refer back to earlier pages in the same work rather than
providing new narrative content in this passage.
category: other
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- ev:1
figures: []
roles: []
symbols:
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label: blood as medium of inspiration
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evidence_refs:
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scenes: []
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label: drinking blood for inspiration
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The only explicit motif-like content in the passage is the note that blood
may be drunk as a medium of inspiration.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: low
cautions: The passage is a footnote apparatus with no surrounding narrative; the
persons, ritual setting, and cultural context of the blood-drinking note are not
specified within the provided excerpt.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
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type: summary
locator: lines 11095-11261; footnotes 695-753
quote_or_summary: Footnotes 695-753 list bibliographic references to ethnographic,
classical, travel, and folklore works, with some cross-references to earlier pages
in the volume.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines near footnote 751
quote_or_summary: "“The blood may be drunk by them as a medium of inspiration.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source text; short quotation used.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: low
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The excerpt is almost entirely bibliographic footnotes, so motif extraction
is limited. The only direct motif-like statement concerns blood drunk as a medium
of inspiration.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not provide enough detail to support a specific cross-traditional comparison beyond bibliographic citation lists.
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