Tabu: seeing the supernatural — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: seeing the supernatural.

Tabu. · Looking tabu. · Tabu: looking at certain person or thing. · view the constellation · filed as C311

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.
general *Fb "se" III 173a

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: looking at certain person or thing.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: seeing supernatural creatures Tabu: looking at holy objects

Filed beside it

Tabu: man looking at woman Tabu: woman looking at man Tabu: looking at certain object Tabu: looking at certain animal Tabu: looking at certain person or thing – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

The Stolen Clothing (previously Marriage by Stealing Clothing) · ATU 413 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “supernatural” · wander