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Motif

Tabu: looking back.

Tabu. · Looking tabu. · Tabu: looking in certain direction. · view the constellation · filed as C331

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Hindu Caland Die altindischen Todten- und Bestattungsgebraüche 23, 73ff.
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Lithuanian Balys Legends Nos. 503f.
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 87 No. 7
  • Eskimo Holm 19, Rink 164, 169, 299, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 225
  • Tonga Gifford 22
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 499
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (z–G 3/1241)
  • S. Am. Indian (Yuracare) Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 502
  • Africa (Fang) Trilles 156, 269, (Luba): DeClerq Zs. f. KS IV 197.
  • general *Fb "se" III 173b
  • general *Chauvin VII 98 No. 375
  • general Hartland Science 236, 243
  • general Samter Geburt, Hochzeit, Tod 147ff. *Pease Cicero De Divinatione 182 (Bk I 49)
  • general Eitrem Hermes und die Toten (1909) 40f.
  • general McCartney Papers of Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters XVI (1931) 147f. – Greek: Fox 147, Usener Kleine Schriften IV 455
  • general Fr. Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 11
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: looking in certain direction.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Tabu: looking back over left shoulder Travelers to other world must not look back. (Cf. all references to F81.1., Orpheus.) Tabu: looking back during flight
Filed beside it
Tabu: looking around Tabu: looking up Tabu: looking over cemetery walls, lest one see ghosts Tabu: looking down upon earth from sky world Tabu: woman in other world forbidden to look behind curtains Tabu: looking up chimney
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Man receives fork in eye for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331.) Transformation to pillar of salt for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331.) – Transformation to stone for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331, C452.)
Carried in tale types

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