Tabu: boasting of children (Niobe)

Motif

Tabu: boasting of children (Niobe).

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Tabu: boasting. · view the constellation · filed as C452

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.

GreekFox 44, 175
GermanicHdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "Berufen".

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: boasting.

Filed beside it

Tabu: boasting of wealth Tabu: boasting of love-conquest Tabu: boasting that one has no need of gods' help Tabu: boasting of fearlessness

Travels with

Transformation to stone for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331, C452.)

wander