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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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
JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-Balys
TahitiHenry 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

Tabu: stealing from god or saint. (Cf. C51.1.2.)

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