Tabu: looking into basket — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: looking into basket.

Tabu. · Looking tabu. · Tabu: looking into certain receptacle. · view the constellation · filed as C327

Filed across the traditions

Congo Weeks 206f. No. 3
Marquesas Handy 120, 122.

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Immediate return to other world because of broken tabu. (Cf. C31, C31.4, C327.)

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