μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Cited in the index
  • 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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