Valuable object turns to worthless, for breaking tabu — Mythoi

Motif

Valuable object turns to worthless, for breaking tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Transformation for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C967

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Transformation for breaking tabu.

Filed beside it

Transformation to object for breaking tabu Transformation to animal 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 Disenchantment for breaking tabu

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