Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural child. (Cf. C31.2, C35.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural child. (Cf. C31.2, C35.1.)

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C33.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 133–136
general (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 77ff. No. 12, (Basuto): Jacottet 110
general (Ibo of Nigeria): Thomas 76, 80.

Within the index

Filed under Offending supernatural child.

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural wife. (Cf. C33.1, C35.1.) Tabu: mentioning origin of animal wife. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1.) Tabu: mentioning original form of transformed person. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1, and C35.1.) Person returns to original form when tabu is broken. A person originally transformed from an animal or an object returns to that form when the origin is mentioned. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1, C35.1, C440, C441.)

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