Transformation to animal for breaking tabu — Mythoi

Motif

Transformation to animal for breaking tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Transformation for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C962

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 334 n. 1 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. V
Jewish Neuman
S. Am. Indian (Mataco) Métraux MAFLS XL 35, (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 172
Africa (Fjort) Dennett 105, No. 29.

Within the index

Filed under Transformation for breaking tabu.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Transformation to mouse for breaking tabu Transformation to bird for breaking tabu

Filed beside it

Transformation to object for breaking tabu Person returns to original form when tabu is broken. A person originally transformed from an animal or an object returns to that form when the origin is mentioned. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1, C35.1, C440, C441.) Change of language for breaking tabu Valuable object turns to worthless, for breaking tabu Disenchantment for breaking tabu

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sphinx. Has face of woman, body and tail of lion, wings of bird Tabu: killing sacred dragon. (Cf. B11.) Transformation: man to dolphin Transformation: oars and masts to serpents Transformation as punishment Journey to upper world. Most references for F0 discuss this motif Man kills son thinking that he is cutting a branch Women, driven mad, devour their infants' flesh Mother kills son thinking him a wild beast Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) Cowherd rescues abandoned child Child's ankles pierced before exposing him

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