Burning as punishment for breaking tabu — Mythoi

Motif

Burning as punishment for breaking tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Death for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C927

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Jewish Neuman
Hawaii Beckwith 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 dust Falling to ashes as punishment for breaking tabu Burning and drowning as punishment 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 by thirst for breaking tabu. (Cf. C949.4.) Death from rattlesnake bite because of breaking tabu Man (woman) vanishes on breaking of tabu Death from insanity as punishment for breaking tabu Death for breaking tabu

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