μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds.

Tabu. · Looking tabu. · Tabu: looking into certain receptacle. · view the constellation · filed as C322.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Greek Fox 137, 266, Frazer Apollodorus II 285 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
  • Estonian FFC XXV 140 No. 9
  • Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 81 No. 13. – N. Am. Indian: Thompson Tales 292 n. 72. – Oceanian: Dixon 55 (Samoan, coconut filled with winds
  • Australian ibid. 296f. (bag of waters.) – Cf. H. C. Andersen "Paradisets Have."
  • general Chatham Islands, basket)
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: looking into bag.

Filed beside it
Tabu: opening bag too soon
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.) Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.) Plant as antidote to spells and enchantments. (Cf. D965.)

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