Tabu: opening gift box prematurely

Motif

Tabu: opening gift box prematurely.

Tabu. · Looking tabu. · Tabu: looking into certain receptacle. · view the constellation · filed as C321.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: looking into box (Pandora).

Filed beside it

Tabu: opening too much of magic box at a time. A priest gives a prince a sealed packet which he is to open in time of distress. He must open only one portion at a time

wander