Building falls because of breaking of tabu. (Cf. C771.1.)

Motif

Building falls because of breaking of tabu. (Cf. C771.1.)

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Loss of fortune for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C931

Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

Jewish*Neuman
EnglishWells 42 (Arthour and Merlin)
SwedishWessman 71 No. 605
IndiaThompson-Balys. – Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 245, (West Hudson Bay)
general Hartland Science 221
general Gaster Exempla 229 No. 239
general Boas BAM XV 234.

Within the index

Filed under Loss of fortune for breaking tabu.

Filed beside it

Dishonor to children because of breaking tabu Loss of wife (husband) for breaking tabu Luck in hunting (fishing) lost for breaking tabu Food supply fails because of broken tabu Helpful animal disappears when tabu is broken War lost because of breaking tabu God's favor lost for breaking tabu. (Cf. C621.)Rulers of inferior character after tabu is broken Loss of fortune for breaking tabu – miscellaneous

Travels with

Tabu: building too high a tower. (Tower of Babel.)

wander