Tabu: looking at supernatural wife naked — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: looking at supernatural wife naked.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C31.1.3

Filed across the traditions

African Werner 191. → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter V

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

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Stars as deities Origin of constellations Origin of particular stars Bird of dawn. Golden plumage; three feet Bird announces time for sunrise and sunset Helpful magpie Animals serve as bridge across stream Giant serpent Transformation: man to smoke Transformation: pill to white rabbit Magic cake Magic cudgel (club)

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