Disenchantment for breaking tabu — Mythoi

Motif

Disenchantment for breaking tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Transformation for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C968

Filed across the traditions

German Grimm No. 57. → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 57

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 Valuable object turns to worthless, for breaking tabu

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Speaking fox Disenchantment by cutting off animal's limb Choice among several gifts. The worst horse, armor, or the like proves best

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