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Motif

Tabu: speaking during certain time.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Speaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C401

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“She walked the whole night long, and next day also without stopping, until she could go no farther for weariness. Then she saw a forest-hut, and went into it, and found a room with six little beds, but she did not venture to get into one of them, but crept under one, and lay down on the hard ground, intencliug to pass the night there. Just before sunset, however, she heard a rustling, and saw six swans come flying in at the window.”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 49 · 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.

  • GermanGrimm Nos. 9, 49, 137.
  • general *Frazer Golden Bough XII 461 s. v. "silence". Spanish Exempla: Keller
Within the index

Filed under Speaking tabu.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Tabu: speaking during vigilTabu: speaking during seven days of danger. As result of prophecy of seven days of danger, an injunction of silence is imposed during this periodTabu: speaking while searching for treasureTabu: speaking while raising sunken church bellTabu: speaking while gathering fernseed to make wishes come true, at midnight on Christmas Eve when fernseed ripens and falls immediatelyTabu: speaking while taking a bath
Filed beside it
Tabu: speaking before certain timeSilence preserved in fairyland
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Disenchantment by maintaining silence for a year or moreTransformation through thoughtless wish of parentQuest for lost brother(s)Transformation by pinching flower (life token)Daily transformationGradual disenchantment. (Cf. D617.)Person restored to human form retains certain animal featuresDisenchantment by physical contactWitch transforms person to animal. (Cf. D100.)Suitors assigned questsTasks performed with help of old womanTask: sewing a shirt from flower petals

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