Island split apart for broken tabu

Motif

Island split apart for broken tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Miscellaneous punishments for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C984.8

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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.

TahitiBeckwith Myth 468.

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 Flood 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

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