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Death for breaking tabu

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Death for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C929

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6 finer motifs beneath it
"Shame and disgrace" threatened for refusing love of forthputting woman Death from specific disease for breaking tabu Beheading for breaking tabu Death by stoning for breaking tabu Death by being swallowed for breaking tabu Man sacrificed to the gods for breaking tabu
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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 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 Burning as punishment for breaking tabu Death from insanity as punishment for breaking tabu

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