Person returns to original animal form when tabu is broken — Mythoi

Motif

Person returns to original animal form when tabu is broken.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Transformation for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C963.1

Filed across the traditions

Africa (Congo) Weeks 215 No. 11 (fish), (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale 403 No. 3 (fish).

Within the index

Filed under 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.)

Filed beside it

Person returns to original egg form when tabu is broken Person returns to original vegetable form when tabu is broken Giants return to life if tabu is broken

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