Tabu: using magic power too often — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: using magic power too often.

Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Time tabus. · view the constellation · filed as C762.1

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 28 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian Thompson 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 dead Tabu: whipping magic horse more than once on journey Tabu: 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 replaced Three foolish wishes. Three wishes will be granted: used up foolishly The 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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