Animals escape when forbidden calabash is opened.
Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Permanent sign of disobedience for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C915.2.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- general African (Yoruba): Frobenius Atlantis X 232f. No. 16.
Within the index
Filed under Animals escape when forbidden baskets opened. Origin of animals.