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Tabu: looking at supernatural wife naked.

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

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“The practical effect of this worship is seen in the following examples taken from the Chinese list of one hundred and twenty-nine lucky and unlucky stars, which, with the sixty cycle-stars and the twenty-eight constellations, besides a vast multitude of others, make up the celestial galaxy worshipped by China's millions: the Orphan Star enables a woman to become a man; the Star of Pleasure decides on betrothals, binding the feet of…”

Myths & Legends of China, Chapter V · served from our shelf

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Filed under Tabu: looking at supernatural wife.

Filed beside it
Tabu: looking at supernatural wife too soonTabu: looking at supernatural wife on certain occasion. (Mélusine). The husband must not see the wife when she is transformed to an animalTabu: 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 deitiesOrigin of constellationsOrigin of particular starsBird of dawn. Golden plumage; three feetBird announces time for sunrise and sunsetHelpful magpieAnimals serve as bridge across streamGiant serpentTransformation: man to smokeTransformation: pill to white rabbitMagic cakeMagic cudgel (club)

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