Death by choking for breaking tabu — Mythoi

Motif

Death by choking for breaking tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Death for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C922.1

Filed across the traditions

Hawaii Beckwith Myth 146.

Within the index

Filed under 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.)

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