Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu

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Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C940

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 375
S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 173.
general Fb "sygdom" III 699a. Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

11 finer motifs beneath it

Princess's secret sickness from breaking tabu. (Cf. C55.)Daughters' sickness because of father's breaking tabu Particular disease caused by breaking tabu Loss of strength from broken tabu Loss of sight for breaking tabu. (Cf. C51.2.)Dumbness as punishment for breaking tabu. (Cf. C311.1.4.)Magic forgetfulness for breaking tabu Limbs affected by breaking tabu Magic power lost by breaking tabu Mutilation as punishment for breaking tabu Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu – miscellaneous

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