Forbidden chamber. Person allowed to enter all chambers of house except one — Mythoi

Motif

Forbidden chamber. Person allowed to enter all chambers of house except one.

Tabu. · Unique prohibitions and compulsions. · The one forbidden thing. · The one forbidden place. · view the constellation · filed as C611

Filed across the traditions

Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 101
Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "chambre"
French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 23
Missouri French Carrière
Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 30
Jewish Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys
Spanish Exempla Keller. – Seneca: Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 135 No. 21
Tonga Gifford 189.
general Types 311, 312, 313, 314, 480, 502, 516, 710
general *BP I 21
general *Cox Cinderella 484
general Roberts* (Type 480) 174. – *MacCulloch Childhood 306
general *Chauvin V 302 No. 117
general **Hartland FLJ III 193
general Fb "kammer" II 83, "menneske" II 577b
general Penzer II 223 n. 1, 252f., VII 21 n. 3, VIII 57 n. 1
general Rösch FFC LXXVII 98
general Clouston Tales I 198ff.
general Köhler-Bolte I 129, 312. – Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

Filed under The one forbidden place.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Forbidden door. All doors may be entered except one Forbidden stables. Person allowed to enter everywhere but into three stables Forbidden ladder

Filed beside it

Forbidden forest. (Cf. C614.1.0.2.) Forbidden road. All roads may be taken except one Forbidden body of water Tabu: feasting visitor at certain place Forbidden country The one forbidden place – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Golden finger as sign of opening forbidden chamber. (Cf. C611.) Hair turns to gold as punishment in forbidden chamber. (Cf. C611.) Bloody key as sign of disobedience. (Cf. C611, C813.)

Carried in tale types

Our Lady's Child · ATU 710 27 recorded variants
The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring · ATU 480 12 recorded variants
Rescue by the Sister · ATU 311 4 recorded variants
Goldener (previously The Youth Transformed to a Horse) · ATU 314 4 recorded variants
Maiden-killer (Bluebeard) (previously The Giant-killer and his Dog) · ATU 312 2 recorded variants
The Princess's Ring (previously Dragons Ravish Princesses) · ATU 301D* 1 recorded variant
The Magic Horse · ATU 302C* 1 recorded variant
The Tree that Grows up to the Sky (previously The Stretching Tree) · ATU 317 1 recorded variant
The Enchanted Husband Sings Lullaby · ATU 425E 1 recorded variant
The Wild Man · ATU 502 1 recorded variant
Princess and Ogress · ATU 871 1 recorded variant

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