μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tabu: drinking.

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

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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
On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
  • generalThe Kalevala, Rune XVIThompson cites: Penzer VI 135. Finnish: Kalevala rune 16. – N. Am. Indian: Thompson Tales 338 n. 217b.
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.

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 worldLooking tabuTransformation to escape from captivityBoat made by magicMagic formula (charm)Land of the deadReincarnation. Return from the dead in another formOrpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the deadRiver entrance to lower worldDead place net across river to prevent living man from returning to earth. (Cf. F105.)

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