μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tabu: looking at supernatural wife.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C31.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham.
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 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.) 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 wife Tabu: blaming supernatural wife Tabu: boasting of supernatural wife Tabu: calling on supernatural wife Tabu: lousing supernatural wife Tabu: striking supernatural wife Tabu: revealing secrets of supernatural wife. (Cf. C420) Tabu: giving garment back to supernatural (divine) wife Tabu: reproaching supernatural wife about her sisters Unfaithful husband loses magic wife
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Trespass betrayed by dripping candle. (Cf. C31.1, C32.1.)

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