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Motif

Nuptial tabu. Man and wife forbidden intercourse for definite time.

Tabu. · Sex tabu. · Tabu: sexual intercourse. · view the constellation · filed as C117

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“Go very slowly, and you will reach there at night; it is not far from here. It is a very difficult country where you are going. Maybe you will not be able to get there.’”’ She gave him a stuffed frog and some glue. ‘“‘When- ever the mountains are too steep for you to climb, cry, ‘Where is my grandmother?’ put glue on your hands, and climb, and you will stick to the rocks. When you reach your next grand- mother, she will advise you well.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 54 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • NorseElton Saxo Grammaticus xxxi, 319, Corpus Poeticum Boreale II 347, Ragnarssage Loðbrókar 128
  • GreekFrazer Apollodorus I 169 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 335 n. 209
  • Calif. IndianGayton and Newman 99
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Holm 47, Rasmussen III 134.
  • general *Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt II 298
  • general Crawley Mystic Rose (1902) 343ff.
  • general *De Vries Zs. f. deutsche Philologie LIII 276ff.
  • general Penzer II 248, VIII 25 n. 1. – Irish myth: Cross
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: sexual intercourse.

1 finer motif beneath it
Tabu: intercourse with resuscitated wife for particular number of days
Filed beside it
Tabu: sexual relationship with girls of nobility while having sore on bodyTabu: loss of chastity. Hero loses power with loss of chastityTabu: sexual intercourse with unearthly beings. (Cf. C122.)Tabu: sodomyTabu: incestTabu: adulteryTabu: sexual intercourse in sacred precinct. (Cf. Q551.3.)Tabu: violating womanMiscellaneous tabus concerning sexual intercourse
Travels with
Girl may remain virgin for three days after marriage. (Cf. C117.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Devastating fox. Monthly human sacrificeTabu: loss of chastity. Hero loses power with loss of chastityTransformation: man to stoneMiscellaneous forms of transformationPetrification by glanceTransformation to husband's (lover's) form to seduce womanMagic pastry (bread, cake, etc.)Magic sandalsMagic capMagic cap renders invisible: tarnkappe. (Cf. D1067.2, D1361.16.)Magic sandals bear person aloft. (Cf. D1065.5.)Night magically lengthened

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