Tabu: mentioning origin of animal wife. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1.)

Motif

Tabu: mentioning origin of animal wife. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1.)

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C35.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 339–342 nn. 222, 223, 233, cf. 234. – Africa (Congo): Weeks 215 No. 11
general (Basuto): Jacottet 108 No. 16, (Fjort): Dennett 43 No. 6, (Cameroon): Rosenhuber 44, (Duala): Lederbogen 143. – Indonesian: Dixon 219.

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Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural wife. (Cf. C33.1, C35.1.)Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural child. (Cf. C31.2, 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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