μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Death for breaking tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Death for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C920

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 68, 118, 134, 138, 371, 508
  • Marquesas Handy 60, 67, 138
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (t-G 3/912, z-G 13/127, 317, z-G 3/1174)
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 341, Rasmussen II 341, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 51, 58, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 600
  • Calif. Indian Gayton and Newman 101
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 47
  • general Type 311
  • general BP I 398ff (Grimm No. 46). – Irish myth: Cross → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 46
  • general African (Angola): Chatelain 219 No. 39, (Ekoi): Talbot 178, (Kaffir): Kidd 237 No. 6, (Wakweli): Bender 43.
Within the index
11 finer motifs beneath it
Death of children for breaking tabu Death of wife for breaking tabu Immediate death for breaking tabu. (Cf. C52, C51.3, C453, C533.) Death by smothering for breaking tabu. Man given secret box conveying the power of making women love him. He disobeys warning and opens it. The women smother him to death. (Cf. C321.) Death by drowning for breaking tabu Death by thirst for breaking tabu. (Cf. C949.4.) Death from rattlesnake bite because of breaking tabu Man (woman) vanishes on breaking of tabu Burning as punishment for breaking tabu Death from insanity as punishment for breaking tabu Death for breaking tabu
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Cutting elder tree fatal to man. (Cf. C920.) Cutting white thorn tree fatal to man who cuts it. (Cf. C920.) Death or bodily injury by magic. (Cf. C920f., D1207.1, D1400, D2089.3.) Inexorable fate: death from violating tabus. (Cf. C920.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bloody egg as sign of disobedience Egg becomes bloody
Carried in tale types

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