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Motifs — first 20 of 1,119
- Lake from violating tabu. A920.1.8.1
- Flood as punishment for breaking tabu. A1018.1
- Origin of eating tabus. A1517
- Origin of tabus. A1587
- Tabus instituted by God or creator. A1587.1
- Tabus instituted by culture hero. A1587.2
- Tabu: contact withsupernatural. C0
- Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.). C10
- Tabu: offending spirits of the dead. C16
- Tabu: calling on ogre or destructive animal. C20
- Tabu: offending supernatural relative. C30
- Tabu: offending supernatural wife. Upon slight offence the wife leaves for her old home. C31
- Tabu: looking at supernatural wife. C31.1
- Tabu: looking at supernatural wife too soon. C31.1.1
- Tabu: looking at supernatural wife on certain occasion. (Mélusine). The husband must not see the wife when she is transformed to an animal. C31.1.2
- Tabu: looking at supernatural wife naked. C31.1.3
- Tabu: husband looking at supernatural wife in childbirth. (Cf. C151.) C31.1.4
- Tabu: opening gourd in which star-wife is kept. When curious girls do so, she flies up to sky. C31.1.5
- Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural wife. (Cf. C33.1, C35.1.) C31.2
- Tabu: disobeying supernatural wife. C31.3