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

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 61 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 342 n. 234
India Thompson-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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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.)

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