μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

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Filed under Death for breaking tabu.

6 finer motifs beneath it
"Shame and disgrace" threatened for refusing love of forthputting womanDeath from specific disease for breaking tabuBeheading for breaking tabuDeath by stoning for breaking tabuDeath by being swallowed for breaking tabuMan sacrificed to the gods 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 tabuBurning as punishment for breaking tabuDeath from insanity as punishment for breaking tabu

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