Person returns to original vegetable form when tabu is broken

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

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

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.)

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