μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham.
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending supernatural wife. Upon slight offence the wife leaves for her old home.

5 finer motifs beneath 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: looking at supernatural wife nakedTabu: 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
Filed beside it
Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural wife. (Cf. C33.1, C35.1.)Tabu: disobeying supernatural wifeTabu: blaming supernatural wifeTabu: boasting of supernatural wifeTabu: calling on supernatural wifeTabu: lousing supernatural wifeTabu: striking supernatural wifeTabu: revealing secrets of supernatural wife. (Cf. C420)Tabu: giving garment back to supernatural (divine) wifeTabu: reproaching supernatural wife about her sistersUnfaithful husband loses magic wife
Travels with
Trespass betrayed by dripping candle. (Cf. C31.1, C32.1.)

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