Sore eyes from breaking tabu

Motif

Sore eyes from breaking tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C943.3

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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.

Eskimo (Cumberland Sound)Boas BAM XV 241.

Within the index

Filed under Loss of sight for breaking tabu. (Cf. C51.2.)

Filed beside it

Man receives fork in eye for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331.)Loss of one eye for breaking tabu

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