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Motif

Magic porridge-pot keeps cooking. Against command, mother of owner bids pot to cook. It fills house with porridge and will not stop until ordered by mistress.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Permanent sign of disobedience for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C916.3

Cited in the index
  • general *Type 565
  • general BP II 438ff.
  • general *Aarne JSFO XXVII 67, 80
  • general *Christensen Molboerne 177.
Within the index

Filed under Continuous action started by breaking tabu.

Filed beside it
Trespass betrayed by dripping candle. (Cf. C31.1, C32.1.) Animals produced when forbidden drum is beaten Spinning wheel continues spinning because woman has worked at forbidden time
Carried in tale types

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