Tabu: boasting of supernatural wife

Motif

Tabu: boasting of supernatural wife.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C31.5

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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EnglishWells 132 (Sir Launfal). Fjort: Dennett 42 No. 6.
general *BP II 327
general Köhler-Bolte I 308ff. Irish myth: Cross

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

Carried in tale types

The Man on a Quest for his Lost Wife · ATU 40072 recorded variants

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