Person must remain in other world because of broken tabu

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Person must remain in other world because of broken tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Person carried to other world for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C953

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

Greek mythGrote 137
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 13
JewishNeuman
MarquesasHandy 120, 122
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 371.

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[First Edition: C951. Girl carried off because of broken tabu. (Cf. C756.2.)]Immediate return to other world because of broken tabu. (Cf. C31, C31.4, C327.)Person carried off to other world for breaking tabu Banishment from heaven for breaking tabu

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