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Motif

Person returns to original vegetable form when tabu is broken.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Transformation for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C963.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Gold Coast) Barker and Sinclair 78 No. 12, (Ekoi): Talbot 133, 134, 135, (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 80, (Fjort): Dennett 44 No. 6.
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 animal form when tabu is broken Person returns to original egg form when tabu is broken Giants return to life if tabu is broken

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