batch.motif.comparative-golden-bough-volume-2-frazer-gutenberg-l15136-l15284
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record_id: batch.motif.comparative-golden-bough-volume-2-frazer-gutenberg-l15136-l15284
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
passage_locator:
label: CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX. / FOOTNOTES; lines 15136-15284
start: '15136'
end: '15284'
translation: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage is a sequence of footnotes citing works on folklore, ethnography,
religion, totemism, and related customs. A few notes mention specific comparative-religion
topics, including a belief that a person’s life is united with an animal’s life,
Australian class systems and totemism, and an authority for a belief in seven
souls.
language: English, with bibliographic titles and quotations in several European
languages
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage consists primarily of numbered citations to scholarly works and
travel or ethnographic accounts.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: One note cites Spanish words describing a belief that people’s lives are united
with the life of an animal, so that they must die when the animal dies.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Several notes cite sources on Australian class systems, Aboriginal customs,
and totemism.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:4
text: One note says that the chief facts of totemism had been collected by the writer
in a separate work titled Totemism.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: One note says that J. B. Neumann is the authority for seven souls.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: One note comments that the “nightjar” is apparently an owl.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures: []
roles: []
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: animal whose life is linked with a human life
literal_form: animal
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: seven souls
literal_form: seven souls
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: nightjar or owl
literal_form: nightjar, apparently an owl
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes: []
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: human life bound to an animal’s life
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A cited Spanish phrase states that a belief is preserved in which people’s
lives are united to that of an animal and they must die when it dies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives this only as a bibliographic footnote and correction,
not as a full narrative or ritual description.
- id: motif:2
label: totemism or social classification by associated beings
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The notes cite Australian class systems and refer to the writer’s separate
collection of facts of totemism.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: low
cautions: The passage names the topic and sources but does not describe a specific
totemic myth, rite, or symbol system.
- id: motif:3
label: multiple souls
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A note identifies an authority for the belief in seven souls.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: low
cautions: The passage does not describe the souls, their functions, or a narrative
involving them.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 15136-15284
quote_or_summary: Numbered footnotes 853-900 cite works by Schott, Radloff, Wilken,
Bastian, Codrington, Howitt, Fison, Grey, Matthews, and others on folklore, ethnography,
religion, and customs.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: footnote 883
quote_or_summary: "“su vida está unida à la de un animal ... mueran ellos cuando
éste muere”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: footnotes 885-890
quote_or_summary: Footnotes cite Howitt on Australian class systems, Krefft on Lower
Murray and Darling customs, Dawson on Australian Aborigines, and Fison and Howitt
on Kamilaroi and Kurnai, with related journal references.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: footnote 891
quote_or_summary: "“The chief facts of totemism have been collected by the present
writer in a little work, Totemism.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: footnote 898
quote_or_summary: The note says B. Hagen is cited for Batta religion and J. B. Neumann
is the authority for the seven souls.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: footnote 889
quote_or_summary: "“the ‘nightjar’ is apparently an owl”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/comparative/project-gutenberg/golden-bough-volume-2-frazer.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: low
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The line range contains footnotes rather than a mythic episode. Motif candidates
are inferred only from explicit topical notes and should be checked against the
main text to which the notes belong.
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 develop a comparative argument beyond citations and brief source notes.
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