μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 18references

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.

  • JewishNeuman
  • HinduCaland Die altindischen Todten- und Bestattungsgebraüche 23, 73ff.
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • LithuanianBalys Legends Nos. 503f.
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 87 No. 7
  • EskimoHolm 19, Rink 164, 169, 299, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 225
  • TongaGifford 22
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 499
  • TuamotuStimson 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 shoulderTravelers to other world must not look back. (Cf. all references to F81.1., Orpheus.)Tabu: looking back during flight
Filed beside it
Tabu: looking aroundTabu: looking upTabu: looking over cemetery walls, lest one see ghostsTabu: looking down upon earth from sky worldTabu: woman in other world forbidden to look behind curtainsTabu: looking up chimney
Travels with
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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