Origin tabu. Prohibition against mention of origin of person or thing — Mythoi

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Origin tabu. Prohibition against mention of origin of person or thing.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Origin tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C440

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2 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: mentioning original form of transformed person. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1, and C35.1.) Tabu: mentioning land of person's birth

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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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