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Motif

Tabu: offending animal wife.

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

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“Immediately the herd rushed upon the man and trampled him into the dust. Then they all ran away except the calf-boy, his mother, and an old bull. These three mourned together for the fate of the unfortunate man. After a time the old bull requested that they examine the ground to see if they could find a piece of bone. After long and careful search they succeeded in finding one small piece that had not been trampled by the buffalo.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 57 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
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. 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 homeTabu: offending supernatural husband. (Cf. C36.)Offending supernatural childTabu: 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 homeResuscitation by sweatingRecognition of transformed person among identical companions. Prearranged signals

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