Tabu: looking into bag — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: looking into bag.

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 19 receipt

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
general Takelau (Samoa): Beckwith Myth 25.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: looking into certain receptacle.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Tabu: opening bag too soon

Filed beside it

Tabu: looking into box (Pandora) 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

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