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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
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.

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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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