Looking tabu — Mythoi

Motif

Looking tabu.

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 55 receipt
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 75 receipt

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hawaiian Legends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes , 24 PELE AND KAMA-PUAA
North American Indigenous Myths of the Cherokee , Snake. Fish, and Insect Myths — Myth 57 57. THE SNAKE MAN

Filed across the traditions

Greek Fox 67 (Pandrosus), Odyssey VII line 20. – Irish myth: Cross → on our shelf: The Odyssey, Book VII
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Graham
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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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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