Tabu: drinking — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: drinking.

Tabu. · Eating and drinking tabu. · Drinking tabus. · Tabu: drinking. · view the constellation · filed as C250

Attested across traditions

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

Filed across the traditions

Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen II 226.
general Type 400
general Penzer VI 135. Finnish: Kalevala rune 16. – N. Am. Indian: Thompson Tales 338 n. 217b. → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune XVI

Within the index

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades) Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.) Tabu: eating in other world Looking tabu Transformation to escape from captivity Boat made by magic Magic formula (charm) Land of the dead Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead River entrance to lower world Dead place net across river to prevent living man from returning to earth. (Cf. F105.)

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