Tabu

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• Person must remain in other world because of broken tabu. C953
• Person carried off to other world for breaking tabu. C954
• Banishment from heaven for breaking tabu. C955
• Transformation for breaking tabu. C960
• Transformation to object for breaking tabu. C961
• Transformation to pillar of salt for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331.) – C961.1
• Transformation to stone for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331, C452.) C961.2
• Transformation to wood for breaking tabu. C961.3
• Transformation to wooden image for breaking tabu. C961.3.1
• Transformation to tree for breaking tabu. C961.3.2
• Transformation to mountain ridge for breaking tabu. C961.4
• Transformation to anthill for breaking tabu. C961.5
• Transformation to animal for breaking tabu. C962
• Transformation to mouse for breaking tabu. C962.1
• Transformation to bird for breaking tabu. C962.2
• 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.) C963
• Person returns to original animal form when tabu is broken. C963.1
• Person returns to original egg form when tabu is broken. C963.2
• Person returns to original vegetable form when tabu is broken. C963.3
• Giants return to life if tabu is broken. C963.4
• Change of language for breaking tabu. C966
• Valuable object turns to worthless, for breaking tabu. C967
• Disenchantment for breaking tabu. C968
• Miscellaneous punishments for breaking tabu. C980
• Person beaten by whips for breaking tabu. C982
• Person must remain on mountain because of broken tabu. C983
• Disaster because of broken tabu. C984
• Great wind because of broken tabu. (Cf. C58.) C984.1
• Storm because of broken tabu. C984.2
• Flood because of broken tabu. C984.3
• Tidal wave for breaking tabu. C984.4
• Sea rolls in over the land from all sides and a sea serpent comes because of broken tabu. C984.4.1
• Disastrous lightning for breaking tabu. C984.5
• General conflagration for breaking tabu. C984.6
• Village sinks in earth for violation of tabu. C984.7
• Island split apart for broken tabu. C984.8
• Physical changes in person because of broken tabu. C985
• Skin changes color because of broken tabu. (Cf. C94.3.) C985.1
• Teeth blackened as punishment for breaking tabu. C985.2
• Foul breath from breaking tabu. C985.3
• Abduction by animal for breaking tabu. C986
• Pursuit by animal for breaking tabu. C986.1
• Curse as punishment for breaking tabu. C987
• Quest imposed for breaking tabu. C991
• Snake bite for broken tabu. C992
• Unborn child affected by mother's broken tabu. C993
• Punishment by adhesion for breaking tabu. C994
• Sleeplessness from breaking tabu. C995
• Person falls because of broken tabu. C996
• Trees wither because of broken tabu. C998