μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tabu: sleeping in other world.

Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Tabu: resting. · view the constellation · filed as C735.2.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 281, (Congo): Weeks 217 No. 22.
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: sleeping in certain place.

1 finer motif beneath it
Tabu: sleeping before lapse of seven days in cloudland
Filed beside it
Tabu: sleeping in empty hut Tabu: king (hero) sleeping after sunrise at capital Tabu: sleeping in house lighted after sunset Tabu: sleeping in cemetery Tabu: sleeping on the path of ghosts Tabu: sleeping on feather bed Tabu: sleeping two nights in the same place until certain result is attained Tabu: to rest sitting or lying until answer to certain question is learned Tabu: sleeping at one's own home

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