μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Tahiti Henry 143
  • Eskimo (Cumberland Sound) Boas BAM XV 241.
  • general See C312.1.1, C312.1.2. for references. – *Fb "öje" III 1166b
Within the index

Filed under Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Man receives fork in eye for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331.) Loss of one eye for breaking tabu Sore eyes from breaking 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 strength from broken tabu 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Tabu: stealing from god or saint. (Cf. C51.1.2.)

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