μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural wife. (Cf. C33.1, C35.1.)

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C31.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 296 No. 21
  • Fjort Dennett 44 No. 6
  • Indonesian De Vries Volksverhalen I No. 35 n.
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
Tabu: looking at supernatural wife 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.)
Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural child. (Cf. C31.2, C35.1.) Tabu: mentioning origin of animal wife. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1.) Tabu: mentioning original form of transformed person. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1, and C35.1.) Person returns to original form when tabu is broken. A person originally transformed from an animal or an object returns to that form when the origin is mentioned. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1, C35.1, C440, C441.)

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