Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished.
Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Tabu: overweening pride. · view the constellation · filed as C773.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Irish myth Cross
- Lithuanian Balys Index No. *555B
- India Thompson-Balys.
- general *Type 555
- general *BP I 138
- general Grimm No. 19 → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 19
- general *DeCock Volkssage 22ff.
- general *Wesselski Märchen 235
Within the index
Filed under Tabu: aspiring to too much power.
1 finer motif beneath it
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Carried in tale types
- The Fisherman and his Wife · ATU 555 1 recorded variant
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