Loss of strength from broken tabu

Motif

Loss of strength from broken tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C942

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish mythCross
DanishFb "klæder" II 200a.

Within the index

Filed under Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Loss of magic strength by smoking Magic horse becomes powerless because of broken tabu Weakness from seeing woman (fairy) naked Woman's breasts dry up because of broken tabu

Filed beside 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 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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