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Tabu: using magic power too often.

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“But the small eye was far back in his socket, and he could not see very well with it. A buffalo was grazing near by, and as White-man stood near him crying, he looked on and wondered. White-man said: “Bere is a buffalo, who has the power to help me in my trouble.” So the Buffalo asked him what he wanted. White- man told him he had lost his eye and needed one. The buffalo took out one of his and put it in White-man’s head.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 28 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
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.

  • N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 299 n. 93
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 461.
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: doing thing too often.

Filed beside it
Tabu: too much weeping for deadTabu: whipping magic horse more than once on journeyTabu: taking more than one fruit from certain tree"Take, but only twice." Man to take money from cursed chest only twice
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Eyes successfully replacedThree foolish wishes. Three wishes will be granted: used up foolishlyThe eye-juggler. A trickster sees a man throwing his eyes into the air and replacing them. He also receives this power but he must not use the power beyond a specified number of times. When he does so, he loses his eyes. He usually gets animal eyes as substitutes

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