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label: PREFACE. / J. G. FRAZER. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY.;
lines 854-921
start: '854'
end: '921'
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: Frazer lists examples from multiple cultures of practices and stories in
which people attempt to raise, direct, sell, enclose, calm, bribe, frighten, or
attack the wind through ritual gestures, objects, spells, offerings, containers,
and weapons.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage states that some people are thought able to make wind blow or
become still.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A Yakut traveler uses a stone found in an animal or fish, horse-hair, a stick,
waving, and a spell to produce a cool breeze.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The Wind clan of the Omahas flap blankets to start a breeze against mosquitoes.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: A Haida practitioner fasts, kills and singes a raven, sweeps it over sea water
four times, places it by a spruce-tree, props open its beak, and requests a fair
wind for a stated number of days.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: A New Britain sorcerer throws burnt lime into the air, chants, waves plant
sprigs, makes a small fire, walks round it, and throws ashes on water to make
wind blow in a direction.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: Windbound fishermen at Fladda’s chapel walk sunwise round the chapel and pour
water on a moist bluish stone to obtain a favorable breeze.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Finnish wizards are said to sell wind enclosed in three knots, each knot corresponding
to increasing wind strength.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The passage links wind enclosed in containers or knots with witches and wizards
in several northern and island traditions, and with mythic figures including Aeolus
and Perdoytus.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: obs:9
text: Frazer notes that with examples such as Aeolus, Perdoytus, and the Motumotu
sorcerer’s bamboo, the discussion has passed from custom into mythology.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:10
text: Hottentots hang a fat skin on a pole so that the wind will blow it down and
thereby lose force.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:11
text: In parts of Austria, during a heavy storm people open a window, throw out
meal, chaff, or feathers, and verbally address the wind to stop.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:12
text: Eskimos of Alaska perform a calm-making ceremony with fire, chanting, an invitation
to the wind demon, water thrown on the fire, arrows, guns, and cannon fire.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:13
text: Several groups respond to storms by threatening or attacking the wind or storm
with firebrands, fists, weapons, shouting, screaming, or cutting at the air.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Yakut traveler
description: A person taking a long journey in hot weather who performs a spell
with stone, horse-hair, and stick.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Wind clan of the Omahas
description: A clan that flaps blankets to start a breeze.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Haida Indian seeking fair wind
description: A person who performs a raven and sea-edge ritual to obtain fair wind.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: New Britain sorcerer
description: A sorcerer who uses lime, plants, fire, chanting, ashes, and water
to make wind blow in a desired direction.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Windbound fishermen at Fladda’s chapel
description: Fishermen who walk sunwise round the chapel and pour water on a moist
stone to gain a favorable breeze.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Finnish wizards
description: Wizards said to sell wind enclosed in knots to storm-staid mariners.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Wizards and witches in Lappland, Lewis, and the Isle of Man
description: Practitioners said to perform the same sale or containment of wind.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Norwegian witch
description: A witch said to have boasted of sinking a ship by opening a bag containing
wind.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Ulysses
description: A mythic recipient of winds in a leather bag.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Aeolus, King of the Winds
description: The mythic figure who gives Ulysses the winds in a leather bag.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Perdoytus, Lithuanian wind-god
description: A wind-god who keeps winds in a leather bag, pursues them when they
escape, beats them, and shuts them up again.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Oiabu sorcerer
description: A sorcerer whom the Motumotu think sends storms, with a bamboo for
each wind that he opens at pleasure.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Shetland old women
description: Women who claim to rule storms and sell wind to seamen.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Hottentots wishing to make wind drop
description: People who hang a fat skin on a pole to make the wind lose force.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:15
name_or_label: Austrian storm participants
description: People who throw meal, chaff, or feathers out the window and address
the wind.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:16
name_or_label: Eskimos of Alaska
description: People who conduct a ceremony to make a calm when winds keep ice on
the coast.
role_refs:
- role:6
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:17
name_or_label: Demon of the wind
description: A being invited to come under the fire, then driven away by water,
arrows, guns, and cannon.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:18
name_or_label: Payaguas
description: People who menace wind with firebrands and beat the air when wind blows
down huts.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: fig:19
name_or_label: Guaycurus
description: People whose men go out armed and whose women and children scream to
intimidate the demon during a severe storm.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: fig:20
name_or_label: Batta village inhabitants
description: People who rush from houses armed with sword and lance during a tempest
and hack at an invisible foe.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: fig:21
name_or_label: Batta Raja
description: Leader who places himself at the head of armed villagers during the
storm response.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: fig:22
name_or_label: Old woman in Batta village
description: A woman especially active in defending her house by slashing the air
with a long sabre.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
roles:
- id: role:1
label: wind-raising ritual actor
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: These figures perform actions intended to make wind or breeze arise or blow
in a chosen direction.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: wind-seeking petitioner
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The fishermen perform a chapel and stone-water rite to obtain a favorable
breeze.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: seller or controller of enclosed wind
assigned_to:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
basis: These figures sell, keep, release, or control winds in knots, bags, or bamboo
containers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:4
label: recipient of contained winds
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Ulysses receives winds in a leather bag from Aeolus.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:5
label: wind deity or king
assigned_to:
- fig:10
- fig:11
basis: Aeolus is called King of the Winds, and Perdoytus is called the Lithuanian
wind-god.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:6
label: wind-calming ritual actor
assigned_to:
- fig:14
- fig:15
- fig:16
basis: These figures perform actions intended to make wind drop, stop, or produce
calm.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: role:7
label: storm intimidator or combatant
assigned_to:
- fig:16
- fig:18
- fig:19
- fig:20
- fig:21
- fig:22
basis: These figures attack, frighten, or intimidate the wind, wind demon, storm,
or invisible foe.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
- id: role:8
label: personified wind adversary
assigned_to:
- fig:17
basis: The wind is treated as a demon that can be invited, mistreated, and driven
away.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wind
literal_form: Wind, breeze, gale, hurricane, storm, or tempest
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
- fig:14
- fig:15
- fig:16
- fig:17
- fig:18
- fig:19
- fig:20
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- ev:13
- ev:16
- id: sym:2
label: stone used in wind rite
literal_form: Stone found in an animal or fish; moist bluish altar stone
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- id: sym:3
label: horse-hair and stick
literal_form: Horse-hair wound around a stone and tied to a stick
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: raven in fair-wind rite
literal_form: Raven shot, singed, swept over water, and set at a spruce-tree
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: fire
literal_form: Fire used for singeing, small ritual fires, calm-making, and firebrands
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:16
- fig:18
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:13
- ev:14
- id: sym:6
label: water
literal_form: Sea water, poured water, ashes thrown on water, and water thrown on
fire
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:16
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:13
- id: sym:7
label: spruce-tree
literal_form: Spruce-tree at whose foot the raven is set
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:8
label: plants in wind rite
literal_form: Sprigs of ginger and other plants
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:9
label: knotted wind
literal_form: Three knots enclosing wind of different strengths
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: sym:10
label: bag containing wind
literal_form: Leather bag or other bag in which wind is shut up
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: sym:11
label: bamboo wind container
literal_form: A bamboo for each wind, opened at pleasure
associated_figures:
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:12
label: skin on pole
literal_form: Fat skin hung on the end of a pole
associated_figures:
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:13
label: offering-like materials to wind
literal_form: Meal, chaff, or feathers thrown out to the wind
associated_figures:
- fig:15
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:14
label: weapons against wind or storm
literal_form: Arrows, guns, cannon, firebrands, fists, swords, lances, and sabre
associated_figures:
- fig:16
- fig:18
- fig:19
- fig:20
- fig:21
- fig:22
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Raising wind by object, gesture, and spell
summary: A Yakut traveler, the Omaha Wind clan, a Haida practitioner, and a New
Britain sorcerer use objects, gestures, spells, chants, and ritual sequences to
raise or direct wind.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:2
label: Favorable breeze from chapel stone
summary: Windbound fishermen at Fladda’s chapel walk sunwise around the chapel and
pour water on a moist altar stone to obtain a favorable breeze.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: Winds sold, knotted, bagged, or kept in bamboo
summary: The passage gives examples of winds sold in knots, shut in bags, received
from Aeolus, controlled by Perdoytus, or held in bamboos by an Oiabu sorcerer.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:9
- sym:10
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:4
label: Calming wind by symbolic burden or address
summary: Hottentots attempt to make wind fall by hanging a skin on a pole, while
Austrians throw out meal, chaff, or feathers and tell the wind to stop.
figure_refs:
- fig:14
- fig:15
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:12
- sym:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: scene:5
label: Driving away the wind demon with fire, water, and weapons
summary: Alaskan Eskimos invite the wind demon to the fire, douse the fire with
communal water, shoot arrows and firearms, and ask for cannon fire against the
wind.
figure_refs:
- fig:16
- fig:17
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: scene:6
label: Armed intimidation of storms
summary: Payaguas, Guaycurus, and Batta villagers respond to destructive wind or
tempest by menacing, screaming at, or attacking the wind, storm demon, or invisible
foe.
figure_refs:
- fig:18
- fig:19
- fig:20
- fig:21
- fig:22
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:5
- sym:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Ritual control of wind
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage repeatedly describes actions intended to make wind rise, blow
in a particular direction, drop, or stop.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:11
- ev:12
confidence: high
cautions: This is a descriptive motif label; no exact provided taxonomy family names
weather control.
- id: motif:2
label: Wind enclosed and released from knots or containers
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Several examples describe wind contained in knots, bags, leather bags, or
bamboo and released or opened to produce winds or storms.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The examples mix reported custom and mythology, as the passage itself
notes.
- id: motif:3
label: Personified wind as demon or foe
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The wind is addressed, coaxed, mistreated, intimidated, fired upon, or attacked
as a demon or invisible enemy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
confidence: high
cautions: Not every example personifies the wind; the motif applies only to the
cited scenes.
- id: motif:4
label: Sympathetic gesture or object action produces wind effect
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Blanket flapping, sweeping a raven over water in the desired direction, hanging
a skin for the wind to blow down, and opening knots or containers all imply a
ritual action corresponding to the desired wind effect.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not explicitly use the term sympathetic magic in this
excerpt.
- id: motif:5
label: Appeasing or bargaining with wind
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The Austrian example gives materials to the wind while telling it to stop;
the Alaskan ceremony invites the wind demon to warm itself before driving it away.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy reference is approximate; the passage presents command, coaxing,
and gift-like gestures rather than a formal covenant or exchange.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself groups many geographically separate practices as instances
of people attempting to control wind by ritual action.
claim_level: same_function
target: Cross-cultural wind-control practices
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:11
- ev:12
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: Frazer’s grouping is comparative and secondary; the excerpt does not
establish historical connection among the practices.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage explicitly places wind-bag and wind-container examples from witches,
Ulysses and Aeolus, Perdoytus, and the Motumotu in a comparable pattern of enclosed
winds opened or escaping.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Enclosed wind in knot, bag, leather bag, or bamboo
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: Frazer distinguishes some items as custom and others as mythology;
similarity alone does not demonstrate contact or common inheritance.
- id: claim:3
claim: The passage presents several storm responses as functionally similar attempts
to frighten, attack, or expel the wind or storm demon.
claim_level: same_function
target: Intimidating or attacking personified storm/wind
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:16
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The actions differ in ritual setting and cultural context, and the
excerpt gives no basis for historical linkage.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 854-855
quote_or_summary: "“the savage thinks he can make the wind to blow or to be still”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 855-859
quote_or_summary: A Yakut in hot weather uses a stone found in an animal or fish,
horse-hair, a stick, waving, and a spell, after which a cool breeze begins to
blow.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 859-861
quote_or_summary: The Omaha Wind clan flap blankets to start a mosquito-driving
breeze.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 861-870
quote_or_summary: A Haida practitioner seeking fair wind fasts, shoots and singes
a raven, sweeps it over the sea four times, places it at a spruce-tree, props
open its beak, and requests wind for a set number of days.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 870-876
quote_or_summary: A New Britain sorcerer throws burnt lime in the air, chants, waves
plant sprigs, makes a small fire, walks round it chanting, and throws ashes on
the water.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 876-880
quote_or_summary: At Fladda’s chapel a moist bluish altar stone is watered after
windbound fishermen walk sunwise round the chapel, producing a favorable breeze.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 880-884
quote_or_summary: Finnish wizards sell wind to mariners, enclosed in three knots;
opening successive knots releases moderate wind, half a gale, and a hurricane.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 884-888
quote_or_summary: Similar wind-selling is attributed to wizards and witches in Lappland,
Lewis, and the Isle of Man; a Norwegian witch claims to have sunk a ship by opening
a bag containing wind.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 888-893
quote_or_summary: Ulysses receives winds in a leather bag from Aeolus; Perdoytus
keeps winds in a leather bag and pursues, beats, and confines them again when
they escape.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 893-899
quote_or_summary: The Motumotu think storms are sent by an Oiabu sorcerer who has
a bamboo for each wind; Frazer says this point passes from custom into mythology,
and notes Shetland women who sell wind.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 899-902
quote_or_summary: Hottentots hang a fat skin on a pole, believing that if the wind
blows it down, the wind will lose its force and fall.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: quote
locator: lines 902-905
quote_or_summary: In parts of Austria people throw out meal, chaff, or feathers
during a storm, saying to the wind, “There, that’s for you, stop!”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 905-915
quote_or_summary: Alaskan Eskimos make a calm by kindling a shore fire, chanting,
inviting the wind demon to warm himself, dousing the fire with communal water,
shooting arrows, firing guns, and asking for cannon fire on the wind.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 915-918
quote_or_summary: Payaguas run against wind with blazing firebrands and beat the
air with fists to frighten the storm.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: lines 918-920
quote_or_summary: Guaycurus men go out armed during severe storms, while women and
children scream to intimidate the demon.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: lines 920-921
quote_or_summary: During a Batta village tempest, armed inhabitants led by the Raja
shout and hack at an invisible foe; an old woman defends her house by slashing
the air with a long sabre.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-1-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The passage is explicit and highly repetitive, supporting extraction of wind-control
patterns. Motif taxonomy mapping is limited because the supplied taxonomy has
no direct weather-control category.
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: |-
Only the supplied passage and metadata were used. Frazer’s terminology and comparative framing are recorded descriptively and should be reviewed in context.
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