Looking tabu — Mythoi

Motif

Looking tabu.

Tabu. · Looking tabu. · Looking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C300

“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

North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 55 receipt
North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 75 receipt

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters

GreekThe Odyssey, Book VIIThompson cites: Fox 67 (Pandrosus), Odyssey VII line 20. – Irish myth: Cross

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

GreekFox 67 (Pandrosus), Odyssey VII line 20. – Irish myth: Cross → on our shelf: The Odyssey, Book VII
India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseGraham
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 338 n. 217
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 385
general *Fb "se" III 172b. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "vue"
general Javanese: Dixon 209
general S. Am. Indian (Cherentes, Amazonian): Alexander Lat. Am. 308, (Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 35.

Within the index

Travels with

Tabu: peeping at sacred font. (Cf. C300.)Tabu: unworthy men to enter or see sanctuary. (Cf. C300.)Magic journey with closed eyes. Person must not open eyes while on the journey. (Cf. C300.)Transformation by violation of looking tabu. (Cf. C300.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

World-fire. A conflagration destroys the earth. Sometimes (as with the flood legends) the tradition is somewhat local and does not refer to an actual destruction of the whole earth; sometimes the fire marks the end of the world Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.)Tabu: eating in other world Tabu: drinking Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form Sky-basket. Ascent to or descent from upper world in a basket Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades)Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead Recognition by "force of nature". Unknown member of family immediately and magically recognized Escape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim

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