Tabu: boasting of children (Niobe) — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: boasting of children (Niobe).

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

Filed across the traditions

Greek Fox 44, 175
Germanic Hdwb. 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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

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