Comparative mythology corpus

Animal Vengeance And Interspecies Blood Feud

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Comparative The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2576-2642 high The passage explains that, from the described viewpoint, animals have human-like feeling and intelligence and souls that survive death or are reborn; killing an animal may expose the killer to vengeance by the animal’s spirit or its species kin, understood through blood-feud obligations. record