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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
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Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
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Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| C146 | Women must wear certain things during menstruation. |
| C146.1 | Menstruating women must wear amulet of leaves when approaching certain valley. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 212. |
| C150 | Tabu connected with childbirth. |
| C151 | Tabu: man not to be present at childbirth. (Cf. C31.1.4.)—English: Child I 179, 181—3, 245f., 502a; II 98, 106f., 414, 418, 422, 499; IV 250a, 464; V236; Dickson Valentine and Orson 169 n. 20; *Boje 125. |
| C152 | Tabus during pregnancy. *Frazer Golden Bough I 141 n., III 147; *Fb "glød", "grav", "gryn", "hul", "hvid" I 700b, "hеr" I 771a, "ild" II 11b, "karklud", "kaste" II 103a, "kniv" II 221.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C152.1 | Tabu: violence to woman during pregnancy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C152.2 | Tabu: refusing unreasonable demand of pregnant woman. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C152.3 | Eating tabus for pregnant woman. |
| C152.3.1 | Pregnant woman not to eat food baked overnight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C152.3.2 | Certain foods tabu one (two) months before childbirth. S. Am. Indian (Brazil): Oberg 110. |
| C153 | Tabu: contact with woman at childbirth. Frazer Golden Bough III 147ff., X 20. |
| C153.1 | Tabu: carrying corpse of woman who died in childbirth. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C154 | Tabus following childbirth. |
| C154.1 | Food tabus following childbirth. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 295, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 312. |
| C160 | Tabu connected with marriage. |
| C161 | Tabus for girl going to her husband. Kaffir: Theal 49. |
| C162 | Tabu: marriage with certain person. |
| C162.1 | Tabu: marrying queen of certain race. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C162.1.1 | Tabu: fairy girl marrying mortal. India: Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 30 No. 13. |
| C162.2 | Tabu: marrying unmanly person. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C162.3 | Tabu: marrying outside of group (or caste). Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C163 | Tabu: neglecting sexual relations in marriage. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C164 | Tabu: forcing wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C165 | Tabu: marriage with person whose blood one has drunk. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C167 | Tabu: playing at marriage ceremony. |
| C167.1 | Boy who plays marriage-game finds he has actually been married to a spirit (invisible during ceremony). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C168 | Tabu: disregarding dream warning against marriage. |
| C168.1 | Woman marries in spite of warning dream. Bears blind child who soon dies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C169 | Tabu connected with marriage—miscellaneous. |
| C169.1 | Tabu: not to lay down basket carrying bride on wedding journey. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C169.2 | Tabu: giving younger daughter in marriage before elder. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C170 | Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. |
| C171 | Mother-in-law tabu. Mother-in-law and son-in-law must not have anything to do with each other.—*Frazer Golden Bough XII 378 s.v. "mother-in-law"; *Andree Ethnographische Parallelen (1878) 159.—Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Zulu): Calaway 164, (Upoto): Einstein 129. |
| C172 | Sister-in-law tabu: older brother must avoid younger brother's wife. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C173 | Daughter-in-law tabu. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C180 | Tabu confined to one sex. |
| C181 | Tabu confined to women. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C181.1 | Tabu: woman not to touch husband's drum (magic object). Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 176 No. 25, (Ekoi): Talbot 18. |
| C181.2 | Tabu: women not to participate in hunting activities. Lappish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 84. |
| C181.3 | Tabu: women not to touch man's weapons. (Cf. C835.2.) —*Krappe études de Mythologie 115ff., Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| C181.4 | Tabu: women not to climb on roof. India: Thompson-Balys |
| C181.5 | Tabu: Baiga women not to tie cloth between legs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C181.6 | Tabu: Bondo women not to wear clothes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C181.7 | Grave (of man) upon which no women can look without foolish laugh or "sine crepitu ventris eius." Irish myth: Cross. |
| C181.8 | Tabu: women not to eat pork. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C181.9 | Tabu: Saora women not to wear gold earrings. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C181.10 | Tabu: women riding in canoe. Marquesas: Handy 134. |
| C181.11 | Mare not to be yoked to cart drawing corpse. McKay, Beal III 141. |
| C181.12 | Tabu: woman sacrificing in temple. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C182 | Tabu confined to men. |
| C182.1 | Tabu: men fishing at certain place. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C182.2 | Tabu: man entering woman's quarters in her absence. Tonga: Gifford 53. |
| C190 | Sex tabu—miscellaneous. |
| C191 | Tabu: mortal lusting after goddess. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 28 n. 2; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C192 | Tabu: refusing to elope with woman who desires it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C193 | Tabu: consorting with a woman. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C193.1 | Tabu: woman being in one's dwelling. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C194 | Tabu: trysting with woman at certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C194.1 | Tabu: embracing at village gate. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C195 | Tabu: taking the advice of a woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C196 | Tabu: asking for king's daughter in marriage. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C200 | Tabu: eating (general). **Schurtz (H). Die Speiseverbote, ein Problem der Volkskunde (Hamburg, 1893); *Frazer Golden Bough III 116ff.; *Type 400.—Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesian: De Vries' list No. 205; Borneo: Dixon 181; Lepers' Island: ibid. 127.—Zuсi: Parsons JAFL XXIX 393. |
| C205 | Tabu: eating one's fill. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 43. |
| C210 | Tabu: eating in certain place. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C211 | Tabu: eating in other world. *Cosquin études Folkloriques 192; *Fb "mad" II 524b; Golther Germanische Mythologie 477; Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 1053; Güntert Kalypso 154ff.; Boberg Bjergfolkenes Bagning (DF XLVI) 56ff.—Norse: Herrmann Saxo II 586ff., MacCulloch Eddic 321; *Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 39 n. 4, Gaster Thespis 191, Oldest Stories 232; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 338 n. 217c.; Melanesian: Codrington 277; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 148. |
| C211.1 | Tabu: eating in fairyland. *Fb "spise" III 495a; Feilberg Bjærgtagen 15f., 19, 28, 56—64, 100; Hartland Science 38—43, 144.—English-Scottish: Child I 322—5, 327, II 505, IV 455, 458, Wimberly Folklore in Ballads, 159, 275ff.; Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 90* n. 19; Wales: Baughman. |
| C211.2 | Tabu: eating in lower world. *Penzer VI 133.—English-Scottish: Child I 322—9 passim.—Maori: Dixon 77; Jewish: Bin Gorion Born Judas I (2d. ed.) 228, VI 64. |
| C211.2.1 | Tabu: eating in land of ghosts. *Hartland Science 45.—Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 210, 240; Maori: Clark 8. |
| C211.2.2 | Tabu: eating in hell (hades). *Fb "mad" II 524. |
| C211.3 | Tabu: sky dwellers eating on earth. Africa (Cameroon): Rosenhuber 38. |
| C211.3.1 | Tabu: goddess eating on earth. Ila: Smith and Dale 347. |
| C211.3.2 | Tabu: fairies eating mortal food. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C215 | Married man not to eat in country of his parents. Fjort: Dennett 43 No. 6. |
| C219 | Tabu: eating from certain place—miscellaneous |
| C219.1 | Tabu: eating from ground. Youth will eat only when on ox. Zulu: Callaway 221. |
| C219.2 | Tabu: eating from fine pots. Basuto: Jacottet 142 No. 20. |
| C219.3 | Tabu: eating off new mats. Kaffir: Theal 86. |
| C219.4 | Tabu: eating from cooking hearth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C220 | Tabu: eating certain things. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C220.1 | Tabu: eating food produced by a spell. Marquesas: Handy 114. |
| C221 | Tabu: eating meat. Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 811; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 93, Rasmussen II 233, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 76, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM 327.—Malory Morte Darthur XV 2; Ekoi: Talbot 409. |
| C221.1 | Tabu: eating flesh of certain animal. Irish myth: Cross; Hebrew: Leviticus, ch. 11; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 636. |
| C221.1.1 | Tabu: eating flesh of certain beast. |
| C221.1.1.1 | Tabu: eating cow. |
| C221.1.1.1.1 | Tabu: eating ox. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 72 No. 11. |
| C221.1.1.1.2 | Tabu: eating calf. *Fb "kalvekjød" II 81. |
| C221.1.1.1.3 | Tabu: killing and cooking sacred cow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C221.1.1.2 | Tabu: eating horsemeat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C221.1.1.3 | Eating seal meat. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV200. |
| C221.1.1.4 | Tabu: eating dog. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C221.1.1.5 | Tabu: eating pork. Leviticus ch. 2; Isa. 65: 4; 66: 3ff.; (Egypt, Mohammedan, Crete).—Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Fang): Tessman 195. |
| C221.1.1.6 | Tabu: eating weasel. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C221.1.1.7 | Tabu: eating mouse. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C221.1.2 | Tabu: eating bird. Marquesas: Handy 64, 131. |
| C221.1.2.1 | Tabu: eating cassawary. Papua: Ker 90. |
| C221.1.2.2 | Tabu: eating pigeon. Marquesas: Handy 67. |
| C221.1.2.3 | Eating dove. (Cf. C549.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| C221.1.2.4 | Tabu: eating eagle. Africa (Pangwe): Tessman 370, (Fang): Tessman 162. |
| C221.1.3 | Tabu: eating fish. New Guinea: Ker 52; China: Eberhard FFC CXX 85f. |
| C221.1.3.1 | Tabu: eating certain fish. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C221.1.3.2 | Tabu: eating eel. Rarotonga: Beckwith Myth 262. |
| C221.1.3.3 | Tabu: eating crabs. Mono-Alu: Wheeler 44. |
| C221.1.3.4 | Tabu: eating shark. Tonga: Gifford 80. |
| C221.2 | Eating totem animal (or animal namesake). Frazer Golden Bough VIII 25ff.—Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 156; India: Thompson-Balys. —Hupa: Goddard UCal I 154; Iroquois. Smith RBAE II 85; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 52; African: *Werner African 276ff.; Tshi: Ellis Tshi-Speaking Peoples 211.—Australian: Parker 40ff.; Bougainville: Wheeler 58. |
| C221.2.1 | Tabu: eating animal helper. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard 217 No. 167; Wyandot: Barbeau GSCan XI 103—131, Nos. 28—38. |
| C221.3 | Tabu: eating certain parts of animals. *Encyc. Religion and Ethics I 492b. |
| C221.3.1 | Tabu: eating animal's genitals. (Cf. C229.2.)—Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 409. |
| C221.3.2 | Tabu: breaking bones of eaten animal. Saintyves Contes de Perrault 39. Cf. also E32. |
| C221.3.3 | Tabu: eating bird's eggs at certain time of year. Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 312. |
| C221.3.4 | Tabu: eating blubber. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 244. |
| C221.3.4.1 | Tabu: eating fat of animals. (Cf. C229.)—Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C221.3.5 | Tabu: eating heart of animal (to commemorate relative whose heart was removed by king.)—Chinese: Graham. |
| C221.3.6 | Tabu: eating sinew of thigh vein. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C221.4 | Tabu: eating animal taken under certain circumstances. |
| C221.4.1 | Tabu: wife eating first animal caught in trap. Ekoi: Talbot 114. |
| C221.4.2 | Tabu: eating fish caught with fish-hook made without proper incantations. Maori: Clark 154. |
| C221.4.3 | Tabu: eating animals recklessly killed. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 138. |
| C221.5 | Tabu: eating live animals or live parts of them. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C224 | Tabu: eating certain vegetable. |
| C224.1 | Tabu: eating beans. *Frazer Pausanias IV 240. |
| C224.2 | Tabu: eating forbidden herbs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C224.3 | Tabu: eating breadfruit. Mono: Wheeler 33. |
| C224.4 | Tabu: horses' eating foreign provender. Greek: *Grote II 130. |
| C225 | Tabu: eating certain fruit. Benga: Nassau 140 No. 16; India: Thompson-Balys; S. Am. Indian (Tupenamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 172; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C225.1 | Tabu: eating pomegranate seed. Greek: Fox 229. |
| C226 | Tabu: eating certain plant. |
| C226.0.1 | Why slayers of tigers must not eat certain plants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C227 | Tabu: eating human flesh. |
| C227.1 | Why cannibalism is out of vogue. New Guinea: Ker 13. |
| C229 | Tabu: eating certain thing—miscellaneous. |
| C229.1 | Tabu: eating thick milk. Kaffir: Theal 49. |
| C229.2 | Tabu: women not to eat genitals (heart, liver, etc.) of animals. (Cf. C221.3.1.)—Nippigen Revue Anthropologique XIV 399.—Ekoi: Talbot 409. |
| C229.3 | Tabu: eating griddle cakes (in Garden of Eden).—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C229.4 | Tabu: eating firstlings (animals, fruit, etc.)—Jewish: Neuman. |
| C229.5 | Eating meat with milk. (Cf. C271).—Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C229.6 | Tabu: eating salt. Africa (Togo): Einstein 8f.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C230 | Tabu: eating at certain time. Irish: Beal XXI 314; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C230.1 | Tabu: feasting for a week. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C231 | Tabu: eating before certain time. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C231.1 | Tabu: girl eating before being called by father. India: Thompson-Balys; Zulu: Callaway 192. |
| C231.2 | Tabu: eating before task is finished. Zuсi: Boas JAFL XXXV 76 No. 4. |
| C231.3 | Tabu: eating before offering woman food. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C231.3.1 | Tabu: eating of magic catch before mother does. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 233. |
| C231.4 | Tabu: eating before house of host has been righted. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C231.5 | Eight handfuls of food only to be eaten during ceremony. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C231.6 | Tabu: eating before three years have passed. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C232 | Tabu: eating on journey. Benga: Nassau 129 No. 14; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C232.1 | Tabu: bride eating on journey to husband. Kaffir: Theal 51. |
| C234 | Tabu: eating while on visit home. *Type 400. |
| C235 | Tabu: eating flesh on Maundy Thursday. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C236 | Tabu: eating after a guest. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C237 | Tabu: feasting by night at beginning of harvest. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C240 | Tabu: eating food of certain person. |
| C241 | Tabu: eating food of gods. Babylonian: Spence 119f.; India: Thompson-Balys.—Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 183. |
| C241.1 | Tabu: tasting milk of "cow of plenty", dedicated to the gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C241.2 | Tabu: eating chief's food. Samoa: Beckwith Myth 512. |
| C243 | Tabu: eating food of transformed husband. Ila (Rhodesia): Smith and Dale 403. |
| C243.1 | Tabu: eating food of supernatural lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C245 | Tabu: eating food birds have pecked at. *Fb "fugl" I 380b. |
| C246 | Tabu: eating with person of certain caste. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C246.1 | Tabu: Jews eating with heathen. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C246.2 | Tabu: eating special food of noble girl. Mono: Wheeler XIII 56. |
| C247 | Tabu: eating food laid on the grave. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| C248 | Tabu: eating food kept for animals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C250 | Tabu: drinking. Type 400; Penzer VI 135.—Finnish: Kalevala rune 16.—N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 338 n. 217b.; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 226. |
| C260 | Tabu: drinking at certain place. |
| C261 | Tabu: drinking from certain fountain. Hartland Science 225; Irish myth: Cross; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 417, 465; Africa (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 109. |
| C262 | Tabu: drinking in other world. *Fb "drikke" I 204.—Wales: Baughman; Icel.: Herrmann Saxo II 586ff., MacCulloch Eddic 321f., Boberg. |
| C263 | Tabu: drinking from certain river between two darknesses. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C270 | Tabu: drinking certain things. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "boisson"; Irish myth: Cross. |
| C271 | Tabu: drinking milk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C272 | Tabu: drinking wine. (Cf. C251.)—Jewish: Neuman, Moreno: Esdras. |
| C272.1 | Tabu: drinking wine touched by hand of heathen. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C272.2 | Tabu: drinking wine at certain time. (Cf. C755.)—Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C272.3 | Tabu: drinking palm-drink: only prince allowed to break it. Africa (Fang): Einstein 45, Trilles 163. |
| C273 | Tabu: drinking water. |
| C273.1 | Tabu: drinking water during certain time. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C273.2 | Tabu: drinking water from certain bottle. Chinese: Eberhard 214 No. 113. |
| C280 | Miscellaneous eating and drinking tabus. |
| C281 | Tabu: drinking without presence of dead heads. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C282 | Tabu: refusing a feast. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C282.1 | Tabu: leaving a feast before it is ended. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C283 | Tabu: eating without giving thanks. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C284 | Tabu: eating alone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C285 | Tabu: eating in company. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C286 | Tabu: partaking of certain feast. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C287 | Tabu: consuming feast without discovering a new wonder. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C288 | Tabu: refusing to eat food demanded and supplied. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C300 | Looking tabu. *Fb "se" III 172b.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "vue"; Greek: Fox 67 (Pandrosus), Odyssey VII line 20.—Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Javanese: Dixon 209; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 338 n. 217; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 385; S. Am. Indian (Cherentes, Amazonian): Alexander Lat. Am. 308, (Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 35. |
| C310 | Tabu: looking at certain person or thing. |
| C311 | Tabu: seeing the supernatural. *Fb "se" III 173a; Irish myth: Cross. |
| C311.1 | Tabu: seeing supernatural creatures. S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 50. |
| C311.1.1 | Tabu: looking at ghosts. Fb "sygdom" III 699a.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C311.1.1.1 | Tabu: looking through the upturned sleeve of a fur coat. One sees ghosts. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| C311.1.2 | Tabu: looking at fairies. Fb "sygdom" III 699a.—Irish myth: Cross; England, Wales: Baughman. |
| C311.1.3 | Tabu: looking at mountain-folk. Fb "sygdom" III 699a. |
| C311.1.4 | Tabu: looking at werewolf. Fb "stum".—Irish myth: Cross. |
| C311.1.5 | Tabu: observing supernatural helper. Chinese: Eberhard 217 No. 167. |
| C311.1.6 | Tabu: seeing witch in her true form. German: Grimm No. 43. |
| C311.1.7 | Tabu: looking at slain game before it dies. Eskimo (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 620. |
| C311.1.8 | Tabu: looking at deity. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C311.1.8.1 | Gods flee at approach of dawn. (Cf. E452.) Tonga: Gifford 140. |
| C311.2 | Tabu: looking at holy objects. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C312 | Tabu: man looking at woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C312.1 | Tabu: man looking at nude woman. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Gaster Thespis 328, Oldest Stories 142. |
| C312.1.1 | Tabu: man looking at nude goddess. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 363 n. 1 (Tiresias), Fox 46, 185 (Acteon), Grote I 238; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C312.1.2 | Tabu: looking at nude woman riding through town. (Godiva.) —Hartland "Peeping Tom and Lady Godiva" FL I 207; Liebrecht Zur Volkskunde 105; English: Baughman. |
| C312.2 | Tabu: looking at woman (miscellaneous). |
| C312.2.1 | Tabu: looking at princess on public appearance. *Chauvin V 61 No. 19; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C312.2.2 | Tabu: looking at old woman helper as she eats. Gold Coast: Barker and Sinclair 90 No. 16. |
| C312.2.3 | Tabu: looking at supernatural woman who is dismembered. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| C312.2.4 | Tabu: looking at women performing Bacchic rites. Greek: Grote I 239. |
| C312.3 | Tabu: on looking at daughter for twelve years. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C313 | Tabu: woman looking at man. |
| C313.0.1 | Tabu: princess never to see male person. All men must hide when she goes forth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C313.1 | Tabu: woman seeing nude man. Greek: Odyssey VI line 128 (Odysseus). |
| C313.1.1 | Tabu: goddess seeing mortal husband naked. Hindu: Keith 95. |
| C315 | Tabu: looking at certain object. |
| C315.1 | Tabu: looking at certain boat. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bateau".—Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 375, Rasmussen I 239. |
| C315.2 | Tabu: looking at heavenly body. |
| C315.2.1 | Looking at moon when shooting game. Bushman: Bleek and Lloyd 67. |
| C315.2.2 | Tabu: looking at sun. Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 180, (Greenland): Rink 441, Rasmussen III 51, Holm 72. |
| C315.2.2.1 | Tabu: looking at sun before prince becomes fourteen years old. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C315.2.3 | Tabu: looking at rainbow. Jewish: Neuman; S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 39. |
| C315.3 | Tabu: looking at water. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C315.4 | Tabu: looking at certain well. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C315.5 | Tabu: looking on certain island. Maori: Beckwith Myth 349. |
| C316 | Tabu: looking at certain animal. |
| C316.1 | Tabu: seeing herd red-headed and white-starred. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C316.2 | Tabu: looking at caribou. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 241. |
| C319 | Tabu: looking at certain person or thing—miscellaneous. |
| C319.1 | Tabu: king forbidden to look at his son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C319.2 | Tabu: seeing dead man not killed by weapons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C320 | Tabu: looking into certain receptacle. |
| C321 | Tabu: looking into box (Pandora). Köhler notes to Gonzenbach Sicilianische Märchen No. 15.—Greek: Hesiod Works and Days lines 81—-104. —England: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *320; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 276 n. 19. |
| C321.1 | Tabu: opening too much of magic box at a time. A priest gives a prince a sealed packet which he is to open in time of distress. He must open only one portion at a time.—Chinese: Werner 230. |
| C321.2 | Tabu: opening gift box prematurely. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C322 | Tabu: looking into bag. India: Thompson-Balys; Takelau (Samoa): Beckwith Myth 25. |
| C322.1 | Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds.—Greek: Fox 137, 266, Frazer Apollodorus II 285 n. 2; Estonian: FFC XXV 140 No. 9; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 81 No. 13.—N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 292 n. 72.—Oceanian: Dixon 55 (Samoan, coconut filled with winds; Chatham Islands, basket); Australian: ibid. 296f. (bag of waters.)—Cf. H. C. Andersen "Paradisets Have." |
| C322.2 | Tabu: opening bag too soon. Welsh: Hartland Science 38. |
| C323 | Tabu: looking into flask. Man given magic flask on condition that he never look into it.—Hartland Science 142; Fb "tønde" III 934b. |
| C324 | Tabu: looking into jug. Woman does so and finds mouse in it.——Type 1416; *BP III 543 n. 1; *Fb "Adam" IV 3b; *Crane Vitry 139 No. 13; Krappe Bull. Hispanique XXXIX 44; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C324.1 | Tabu: looking into magic calabash. African: (Yoruba): Frobenius Atlantis X 232f. No. 16. |
| C325 | Tabu: looking into the pots in hell. Type 475; Köhler-Bolte I 69. |
| C326 | Tabu: looking under certain bell too soon. Chinese: Werner 421. |
| C327 | Tabu: looking into basket. Congo: Weeks 206f. No. 3; Marquesas: Handy 120, 122. |
| C328 | Tabu: opening corpse-wrapping. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C330 | Tabu: looking in certain direction. |
| C331 | Tabu: looking back. *Fb "se" III 173b; *Chauvin VII 98 No. 375; Hartland Science 236, 243; Samter Geburt, Hochzeit, Tod 147ff.—*Pease Cicero De Divinatione 182 (Bk I 49); Eitrem Hermes und die Toten (1909) 40f.; McCartney Papers of Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters XVI (1931) 147f.—Greek: Fox 147, Usener Kleine Schriften IV 455; Jewish: Neuman; Hindu: Caland Die altindischen Todten- und Bestattungsgebraüche 23, 73ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Fr. Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 11; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 503f.; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 87 No. 7; Eskimo: Holm 19, Rink 164, 169, 299, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 225; Tonga: Gifford 22; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 499; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z—G 3/1241); S. Am. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 502; Africa (Fang): Trilles 156, 269, (Luba): DeClerq Zs. f. KS IV 197. |
| C331.1 | Tabu: looking back over left shoulder. Irish myth: Cross. |
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