Tabu: looking into certain receptacle — Mythoi

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Tabu: looking into certain receptacle.

Tabu. · Looking tabu. · Tabu: looking into certain receptacle. · view the constellation · filed as C320

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8 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: looking into box (Pandora)Tabu: looking into bag Tabu: looking into flask. Man given magic flask on condition that he never look into it Tabu: looking into jug. Woman does so and finds mouse in it Tabu: looking into the pots in hell Tabu: looking under certain bell too soon Tabu: looking into basket Tabu: opening corpse-wrapping

Carried in tale types

The Observance of the Master's Precepts (previously The Servant's Good Counsels) · ATU 910B8 recorded variants