μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.).

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.). · view the constellation · filed as C10

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“As she came around the second time another touched her with his rod, and then another and another, until at the seventh round she fell out of the ring, and they put her into the box and closed the lid fast. The other ghosts seemed never to notice what had happened. They took up the box and started home toward the east. In a little while the girl came to life again and begged to be let out of the box, but they made no answer and went on.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 55 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Halliday in Penzer VIII xiv
  • general BP II 63 n. 1. – N. Am. Indian: Thompson Tales 338 n. 217a
Within the index
7 finer motifs beneath it
Druidism forbiddenThe Old Man and Death. Weary old man wishes for death. When Death appears at the summons he asks for help with the loadDevil invoked: appears unexpectedlyThe offended skull (statue) (Festin de Pierre). A skull (statue) is invited to dinner. Attends the dinner and takes his host off to the other world"Adversity" summoned: king says he has heard people speak of adversity but has never seen it; genius of adversity appearsWish for supernatural husband (wife) realized. (Cf. C26.)Tabu: offending spirits of the dead
Travels with
Light remark about what person would do if ghost appeared causes ghost to appear. (Cf. C10, C13.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Tabu: eating in other worldTabu: drinkingLooking tabuReincarnation. Return from the dead in another formDescent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades)Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead

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