Tabu: looking into jug. Woman does so and finds mouse in it — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: looking into jug. Woman does so and finds mouse in it.

Tabu. · Looking tabu. · Tabu: looking into certain receptacle. · view the constellation · filed as C324

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman.
general Type 1416
general *BP III 543 n. 1
general *Fb "Adam" IV 3b
general *Crane Vitry 139 No. 13
general Krappe Bull. Hispanique XXXIX 44

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: looking into certain receptacle.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tabu: looking into magic calabash

Filed beside 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 the pots in hell Tabu: looking under certain bell too soon Tabu: looking into basket Tabu: opening corpse-wrapping

Carried in tale types

The Mouse in the Silver Jug · ATU 1416 1 recorded variant

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