Tabu: looking into the pots in hell

Motif

Tabu: looking into the pots in hell.

Tabu. · Looking tabu. · Tabu: looking into certain receptacle. · view the constellation · filed as C325

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.

general Type 475
general Köhler-Bolte I 69.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: looking into certain receptacle.

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 jug. Woman does so and finds mouse in it Tabu: looking under certain bell too soon Tabu: looking into basket Tabu: opening corpse-wrapping

Carried in tale types

The Man as Heater of Hell's Kettle · ATU 4751 recorded variant
Princess and Ogress · ATU 8711 recorded variant

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