Tabu: looking at supernatural wife on certain occasion. (Mélusine). The husband must not see the wife when she is transformed to an animal

Motif

Tabu: looking at supernatural wife on certain occasion. (Mélusine). The husband must not see the wife when she is transformed to an animal.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C31.1.2

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Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXV (1933) 121
general *Köhler-Bolte III 265nn. 1, 2
general **Köhler Der Ursprung der Melusinensage (1895)
general Desaivre Le Mythe de la Mére Lusine (Extrait des Memoires de la Société de Statistique, Sciences, Lettres, et Arts de Deux-Sèvres [Saint-Maixent 1883])
general Keightley Fairy Mythology 480
general Baring-Gould Curious Myths 470
general Hartland Science 201
general Holmström Studier över Svanjungfrumotivet 100
general M. Nowack Die Melusinensage (Diss. 1886)
general *Fränkel Zs. f. Vksk. IV 387
general Jegerlehner Oberwallis 307 No. 24.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: looking at supernatural wife.

Filed beside it

Tabu: looking at supernatural wife too soon 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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