Death by thirst for breaking tabu. (Cf. C949.4.)

Motif

Death by thirst for breaking tabu. (Cf. C949.4.)

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Death for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C924

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 (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 67.

Within the index

Filed under Death for breaking tabu.

Filed beside 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 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

Bleeding from breaking tabu Continued thirst from breaking tabu. (Cf. C924.)

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