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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 55 receipt

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-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 forbidden The Old Man and Death. Weary old man wishes for death. When Death appears at the summons he asks for help with the load Devil invoked: appears unexpectedly The 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 appears Wish for supernatural husband (wife) realized. (Cf. C26.) Tabu: offending spirits of the dead

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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 world Tabu: drinking Looking tabu Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades) Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead

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