Tidal wave for breaking tabu

Motif

Tidal wave for breaking tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Miscellaneous punishments for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C984.4

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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.

general Lau Islands: Beckwith Myth 19.

Within the index

Filed under Disaster because of broken tabu.

1 finer motif beneath it

Sea rolls in over the land from all sides and a sea serpent comes because of broken tabu

Filed beside it

Great wind because of broken tabu. (Cf. C58.)Storm because of broken tabu Flood because of broken 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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