Tabu: offending supernatural wife. Upon slight offence the wife leaves for her old home — Mythoi

Motif

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

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 57 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
English Child I 21, 485a, II 496b, 509a, IV 440b
India *Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 340 n. 223a
Eskimo (Cumberland Sound) Boas VAM XV 180
Maori Dixon 58, 72.
general *Hoffman-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 120 n. 4

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending supernatural relative.

12 finer motifs beneath 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: 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

Filed beside it

Tabu: offending supernatural husband. (Cf. C36.) Offending supernatural child Tabu: offending animal wife Tabu: offending animal husband. (Cf. C32) Tabu: offending other animal relatives

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Immediate return to other world because of broken tabu. (Cf. C31, C31.4, C327.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Tabu: offending animal wife Resuscitation by sweating Recognition of transformed person among identical companions. Prearranged signals

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