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Motif

Tabu: looking into bag.

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

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“Then, to verify his statements, he opened one corner of the blanket, and immediately it began to blow fiercely, and the lodge itself was almost blown over. The people cried to him to stay the force of the Wind, which he did by again tying up the corner of the blanket. At last he re- leased the Wind on the condition that he would never blow strongly enough to hurt people in the Indian country again, which promise he has kept.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 19 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-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 windsTabu: 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 itTabu: looking into jug. Woman does so and finds mouse in itTabu: looking into the pots in hellTabu: looking under certain bell too soonTabu: looking into basketTabu: opening corpse-wrapping

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