Tabu: opening gourd in which star-wife is kept. When curious girls do so, she flies up to sky — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: opening gourd in which star-wife is kept. When curious girls do so, she flies up to sky.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C31.1.5

Cited in the index

general S. Am. Indian (Camacoco): Métraux MAFLS XL 48.

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: looking at supernatural wife naked Tabu: husband looking at supernatural wife in childbirth. (Cf. C151.)

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