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Motif

Flood because of broken tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Miscellaneous punishments for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C984.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Marquesas Handy 114
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 29.
  • general Chatham Island: Beckwith Myth 19, notes 10–12
Within the index

Filed under Disaster because of broken tabu.

Filed beside it
Great wind because of broken tabu. (Cf. C58.) Storm because of broken tabu Tidal wave for breaking tabu Disastrous lightning for breaking tabu General conflagration for breaking tabu Village sinks in earth for violation of tabu Island split apart for broken tabu

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