Food supply fails because of broken tabu

Motif

Food supply fails because of broken tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Loss of fortune for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C934

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 452, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 200
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 111
Samoaibid. 450.

Within the index

Filed under Loss of fortune for breaking tabu.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Loss of crops because of broken tabu Land made sterile because of broken tabu Elves set country afire because of broken tabu

Filed beside it

Dishonor to children because of breaking tabu Building falls because of breaking of tabu. (Cf. C771.1.)Loss of wife (husband) for breaking tabu Luck in hunting (fishing) lost for breaking 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

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