Tabu: looking at supernatural husband

Motif

Tabu: looking at supernatural husband.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C32.1

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general *Type 425a
general *BP II 234, 245ff., 266ff.
general *Tegethoff Studien zum Märchentypus von Amor und Psyche 32
general *Lang Cupid and Psyche (1886)
general *Fb "lys" II 483a. India: Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending supernatural husband. (Cf. C36.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: wife seeing transformed husband Tabu: showing surprise when supernatural husband resumes his true shape

Filed beside it

Tabu: questioning supernatural husband Tabu: not to touch too soon supernatural husband on visit

Travels with

Trespass betrayed by dripping candle. (Cf. C31.1, C32.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Animal as Bridegroom · ATU 425A24 recorded variants

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