μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
  • JewishNeuman
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 264
  • S. Am. Indian (Chamacoco)Métraux MAFLS XL 48
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 441, Rasmussen III 51, Holm 72.
Within the index

Filed under Death for breaking tabu.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Person turned to dustFalling to ashes as punishment for breaking tabuBurning and drowning as punishment for breaking tabu
Filed beside it
Death of children for breaking tabuDeath of wife for breaking tabuImmediate 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 tabuDeath by thirst for breaking tabu. (Cf. C949.4.)Death from rattlesnake bite because of breaking tabuMan (woman) vanishes on breaking of tabuDeath from insanity as punishment for breaking tabuDeath for breaking tabu

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