Tabus connected with other-world journeys — Mythoi

Motif

Tabus connected with other-world journeys.

Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Tabus connected with other-world journeys. · view the constellation · filed as C710

Filed across the traditions

Babylonian Gilgamesch-Epos XII p. 64ff. Icelandic: Boberg
Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 371, 440, Rasmussen III 170
Marquesas Beckwith Myth 149.

Within the index

6 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: going into bath on return from serpent kingdom. (Cf. C721.) Tabu: staying too long in other world Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives Tabus concerning requests made in otherworld Tabu: speaking in otherworld. (Cf. C400.) Tabu: removing hats while in otherworld

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