Tabu: looking at supernatural wife too soon — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: looking at supernatural wife too soon.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C31.1.1

Cited in the index

general *BP III 114 (Gr. No. 137). Middle English romance: Wells 145 (Parthenope of Blois).

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: looking at supernatural wife.

Filed beside it

Tabu: looking at supernatural wife on certain occasion. (Mélusine). The husband must not see the wife when she is transformed to an animal Tabu: looking at supernatural wife naked Tabu: husband looking at supernatural wife in childbirth. (Cf. C151.) Tabu: opening gourd in which star-wife is kept. When curious girls do so, she flies up to sky

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