Death by drowning for breaking tabu

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Death by drowning for breaking tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Death for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C923

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

Irish mythCross
GreekFox 135 (Ajax the less), Grote I 284
JewishNeuman
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 118
Samoaibid. 25, 512
TuamotuStimson MS (t-G 2/44, z-G 13/441)
MarquesasHandy 134
Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen I 115, III 124.

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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 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

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