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

Motif

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

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Origin tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C441

“He suspected that the fox was after food. He quietly slipped up to the house and on en- tering saw a most beautiful woman dressed in skin clothing of wondrous make. Within the house, on a line, hung the skin of a fox. The man inquired if it was she who had done these things. She replied that she was his wife and it was her duty to do them, hoping that she had performed her labor in a man- ner satisfactory to him.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 61 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions

North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 61 receipt

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 342 n. 234
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general MacCulloch Childhood 261
general Tupper and Ogle Walter Map 221

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Family dares not discuss tigers, fearing that son in form of tiger will return

Filed beside it

Tabu: mentioning land of person's birth

Travels with

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.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Marriage to beast in human form. (Cf. B601, B641.)

wander