Tabu: offending animal wife — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: offending animal wife.

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 57 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 339 n. 223
Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 145, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 616.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending supernatural relative.

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Tabu: offending supernatural wife. Upon slight offence the wife leaves for her old home Tabu: offending supernatural husband. (Cf. C36.) Offending supernatural child Tabu: offending animal husband. (Cf. C32) Tabu: offending other animal relatives

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Tabu: offending supernatural wife. Upon slight offence the wife leaves for her old home Resuscitation by sweating Recognition of transformed person among identical companions. Prearranged signals

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