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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
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| C231.3 | Tabu: eating before offering woman food. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C231.2 | Tabu: eating before task is finished. Zuсi: Boas JAFL XXXV 76 No. 4. |
| C231.6 | Tabu: eating before three years have passed. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C221.1.2 | Tabu: eating bird. Marquesas: Handy 64, 131. |
| 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. |
| C224.3 | Tabu: eating breadfruit. Mono: Wheeler 33. |
| C221.1.1.1.2 | Tabu: eating calf. *Fb "kalvekjød" II 81. |
| C221.1.2.1 | Tabu: eating cassawary. Papua: Ker 90. |
| C221.1.3.1 | Tabu: eating certain fish. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C225 | Tabu: eating certain fruit. Benga: Nassau 140 No. 16; India: Thompson-Balys; S. Am. Indian (Tupenamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 172; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C221.3 | Tabu: eating certain parts of animals. *Encyc. Religion and Ethics I 492b. |
| C226 | Tabu: eating certain plant. |
| C229 | Tabu: eating certain thing—miscellaneous. |
| C220 | Tabu: eating certain things. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C224 | Tabu: eating certain vegetable. |
| C241.2 | Tabu: eating chief's food. Samoa: Beckwith Myth 512. |
| C221.1.1.1 | Tabu: eating cow. |
| C221.1.3.3 | Tabu: eating crabs. Mono-Alu: Wheeler 44. |
| C221.1.1.4 | Tabu: eating dog. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C221.1.2.4 | Tabu: eating eagle. Africa (Pangwe): Tessman 370, (Fang): Tessman 162. |
| C221.1.3.2 | Tabu: eating eel. Rarotonga: Beckwith Myth 262. |
| C221.3.4.1 | Tabu: eating fat of animals. (Cf. C229.)—Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C229.4 | Tabu: eating firstlings (animals, fruit, etc.)—Jewish: Neuman. |
| C221.4.2 | Tabu: eating fish caught with fish-hook made without proper incantations. Maori: Clark 154. |
| C221.1.3 | Tabu: eating fish. New Guinea: Ker 52; China: Eberhard FFC CXX 85f. |
| 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. |
| C235 | Tabu: eating flesh on Maundy Thursday. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C245 | Tabu: eating food birds have pecked at. *Fb "fugl" I 380b. |
| C248 | Tabu: eating food kept for animals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C247 | Tabu: eating food laid on the grave. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| C240 | Tabu: eating food of certain person. |
| C241 | Tabu: eating food of gods. Babylonian: Spence 119f.; India: Thompson-Balys.—Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 183. |
| C243.1 | Tabu: eating food of supernatural lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C243 | Tabu: eating food of transformed husband. Ila (Rhodesia): Smith and Dale 403. |
| C220.1 | Tabu: eating food produced by a spell. Marquesas: Handy 114. |
| C224.2 | Tabu: eating forbidden herbs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C219 | Tabu: eating from certain place—miscellaneous |
| C219.4 | Tabu: eating from cooking hearth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C219.2 | Tabu: eating from fine pots. Basuto: Jacottet 142 No. 20. |
| C219.1 | Tabu: eating from ground. Youth will eat only when on ox. Zulu: Callaway 221. |
| C143 | Tabu: eating from hands of menstruating women. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C57.1.3 | Tabu: eating from offerings made to gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C229.3 | Tabu: eating griddle cakes (in Garden of Eden).—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C221.3.5 | Tabu: eating heart of animal (to commemorate relative whose heart was removed by king.)—Chinese: Graham. |
| C221.1.1.2 | Tabu: eating horsemeat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C227 | Tabu: eating human flesh. |
| C210 | Tabu: eating in certain place. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C285 | Tabu: eating in company. Irish myth: Cross. |
| 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. |
| C211.2.2 | Tabu: eating in hell (hades). *Fb "mad" II 524. |
| C211.2.1 | Tabu: eating in land of ghosts. *Hartland Science 45.—Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 210, 240; Maori: Clark 8. |
| 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 | 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. |
| C221.5 | Tabu: eating live animals or live parts of them. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| 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. |
| C221.1.1.7 | Tabu: eating mouse. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C231.3.1 | Tabu: eating of magic catch before mother does. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 233. |
| C219.3 | Tabu: eating off new mats. Kaffir: Theal 86. |
| C232 | Tabu: eating on journey. Benga: Nassau 129 No. 14; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C205 | Tabu: eating one's fill. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 43. |
| C221.1.1.1.1 | Tabu: eating ox. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 72 No. 11. |
| C221.1.2.2 | Tabu: eating pigeon. Marquesas: Handy 67. |
| C225.1 | Tabu: eating pomegranate seed. Greek: Fox 229. |
| C221.1.1.5 | Tabu: eating pork. Leviticus ch. 2; Isa. 65: 4; 66: 3ff.; (Egypt, Mohammedan, Crete).—Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Fang): Tessman 195. |
| C229.6 | Tabu: eating salt. Africa (Togo): Einstein 8f.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C221.1.3.4 | Tabu: eating shark. Tonga: Gifford 80. |
| C221.3.6 | Tabu: eating sinew of thigh vein. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C246.2 | Tabu: eating special food of noble girl. Mono: Wheeler XIII 56. |
| C229.1 | Tabu: eating thick milk. Kaffir: Theal 49. |
| C221.1.1.6 | Tabu: eating weasel. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C234 | Tabu: eating while on visit home. *Type 400. |
| C246 | Tabu: eating with person of certain caste. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C283 | Tabu: eating without giving thanks. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C567.1 | Tabu: eloping with king's daughter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C541.6 | Tabu: embalming. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C194.1 | Tabu: embracing at village gate. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C756.4 | Tabu: entering chariot less than three weeks after having eaten horseflesh. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C745 | Tabu: entertaining strangers. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C93.7 | Tabu: erecting fort on holy ground. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C842 | Tabu: exposure to sunlight. Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 72 (to Gonzenbach No. 34); Grimm No. 88; Gaster Oldest Stories 169.—African (Basuto): Jacottet 184, 186 No. 27, (Kaffir): Theal 56, (Ibo, Nigeria): Basden 276, (Pangwe): Tessman 367. |
| C491 | Tabu: expressing astonishment at marvel. (Cf. C411, C423.2.) —*Köhler-Bolte I 220.—Irish: Beal XXI 314; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 254 No. 31. |
| C413 | Tabu: expressing surprise in lower world of dead. India: Thompson-Balys; African: Werner African 187. |
| C99.1 | Tabu: facing the sun (sun-god) while urinating. (Cf. T521.)—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C64 | Tabu: failing to heed message of god. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 105 No. 29. |
| C835.2.1 | Tabu: failing to make gift to magic lance. The lance kills offender. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C94.1.2 | Tabu: failure to give alms to Brahmans. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C119.2 | Tabu: failure to sleep with guest unaccompanied by husband. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C211.3.2 | Tabu: fairies eating mortal food. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C162.1.1 | Tabu: fairy girl marrying mortal. India: Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 30 No. 13. |
| C94.2 | Tabu: false and profane swearing of oath. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 448.—Jewish: Neuman. |
| C51.6 | Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 80 n. 3; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C634 | Tabu: fasting on holidays. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C237 | Tabu: feasting by night at beginning of harvest. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C230.1 | Tabu: feasting for a week. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C616 | Tabu: feasting visitor at certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.4 | Tabu: fighting certain person. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.4.1 | Tabu: fighting with a hag. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C821 | Tabu: finding age of monster. Type 500; *BP I 497. |
| C820 | Tabu: finding certain secret. |
| C824 | Tabu: finding name of ghost. BP I 496; Grimm No. 55. |
| C566.1 | Tabu: fish hero snaring a being in the bays of his land. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C863 | Tabu: following three red men to certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C164 | Tabu: forcing wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C57.1.1 | Tabu: fraudulent sacrifice. India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C231.1 | Tabu: girl eating before being called by father. India: Thompson-Balys; Zulu: Callaway 192. |
| C131 | Tabu: girl going forth at puberty. Kaffir: Theal 17, cf. 67.—N. A. Indian: Curtin Myths of the Modocs 68. |
| C835.2.6 | Tabu: giving arms in pledge. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C847 | Tabu: giving away gifts received from animal. |
| C847.1 | Tabu: giving away gifts received from fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C51.8 | Tabu: giving away idol. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C783.2 | Tabu: giving away rings. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| C783 | Tabu: giving away. |
| C783.1 | Tabu: giving certain money away.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "argent". |
| C437 | Tabu: giving child a name lest it die early. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 298. |
| C31.10 | Tabu: giving garment back to supernatural (divine) wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C635 | Tabu: giving ring at certain time. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C95 | Tabu: giving security for one excommunicated. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C169.2 | Tabu: giving younger daughter in marriage before elder. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C211.3.1 | Tabu: goddess eating on earth. Ila: Smith and Dale 347. |
| C313.1.1 | Tabu: goddess seeing mortal husband naked. Hindu: Keith 95. |
| C632 | Tabu: going abroad on Hallowe'en. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C141 | Tabu: going forth during menses. Frazer Golden Bough III 145ff., X 76ff.; Hebrew: Leviticus 15: 19ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C756.3 | Tabu: going home before adventure is completed. South African: Bourhill and Drake Fairy Tales from South Africa 237ff. No. 20. |
| C756.1 | Tabu: going home before dog precedes. Fb "hund" I 678b. |
| C614.1.0.1 | Tabu: going in a certain direction while tending cattle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C614.1.5 | Tabu: going in direction either of sunset or sunrise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C711 | Tabu: going into bath on return from serpent kingdom. (Cf. C721.) —Chauvin V 257 No. 152. |
| C619.2 | Tabu: going into wild boar's haunt. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C751.4 | Tabu: going on water Monday after May Day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C755.8 | Tabu: going out at night by oneself. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C614.2 | Tabu: going through a wicket gate. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.3 | Tabu: going to (leaving) certain place without combat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C853.2 | Tabu: going to assembly of women at certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C878.2.1 | Tabu: going to battle without being clothed in silk. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C755.4 | Tabu: going to certain place in March. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C833.8 | Tabu: going to certain place in speckled garment on speckled steed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C833.5 | Tabu: going with dry feet over certain river. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C881.1 | Tabu: grumbling at narrowness of certain boat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C881 | Tabu: grumbling. |
| C884.1 | Tabu: halting or unloading horse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C519.1 | Tabu: harming tree in any way before burning it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C885 | Tabu: hearing or listening. |
| C811.2 | Tabu: heeding magic yam that says not to take it up. Gold Coast: Barker and Sinclair 90 No. 16. |
| C810 | Tabu: heeding persuasive person or thing. |
| C811.1 | Tabu: heeding persuasive voice of magic drum. Not to pick up drum that says "take me".—Roberts Type 480, p. 204; Benga: Nassau No. 11. |
| C811 | Tabu: heeding persuasive voices. Tsimshian: Boas RBAE XXXI 188. |
| C745.1 | Tabu: heeding pleas of old woman for food and warmth. (Old woman is transformed demon.)—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C899.1 | Tabu: hiding iron. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C853.1 | Tabu: holding meeting at certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C224.4 | Tabu: horses' eating foreign provender. Greek: *Grote II 130. |
| C841.4 | Tabu: hunting a pig. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C841.2 | Tabu: hunting birds. Supernatural lover (king of birds) tells woman that son must not do so.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| C614.1.0.2 | Tabu: hunting in certain part of forest. (Cf. C612.) —India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C755.6 | Tabu: hunting in certain season. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 97, III 187. |
| C755.6.1 | Tabu: hunting in hottest season. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C636 | Tabu: hunting on shortest day in the year. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 341. |
| C31.1.4 | Tabu: husband looking at supernatural wife in childbirth. (Cf. C151.)—Japanese: Anesaki 266. |
| C62 | Tabu: idolatry. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C51.5 | Tabu: imitating god. Greek: Fox 106 (Salmoneus imitates Zeus's thunder), Grote I 103f.*, 128; German: Grimm No. 147; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C114 | Tabu: incest. **Rank Inzestmotiv.—Hebrew: Leviticus 20: 11ff.; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C857 | Tabu: inciting horse at certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C119.1.3 | Tabu: intercourse at hunting season. Samoyed: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 84. |
| C119.1.6 | Tabu: intercourse at night. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C119.1.5 | Tabu: intercourse before worship. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C117.1 | Tabu: intercourse with resuscitated wife for particular number of days. Marquesas: Handy 113. |
| C246.1 | Tabu: Jews eating with heathen. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C631.1 | Tabu: journeying on sabbath. Jewish: *Neuman; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.11 | Tabu: killing a cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.5 | Tabu: killing a swan. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C841.10 | Tabu: killing albatross. |
| C221.1.1.1.3 | Tabu: killing and cooking sacred cow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.0.3 | Tabu: killing animal which takes refuge with one. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C92.1.0.1 | Tabu: killing animals for sacrifice. (Cf. C57.1.)—Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 461, II 577. |
| C841.8.1 | Tabu: killing antelope. Africa (Fang): Tessman 190f. |
| C841 | Tabu: killing certain animals. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.9 | Tabu: killing certain fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.8 | Tabu: killing deer. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.6 | Tabu: killing golden duck. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| C563.6 | Tabu: killing king, even at his own request. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C766.1 | Tabu: killing more cattle than one can eat. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| C92.1.6 | Tabu: killing other sacred bird. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 160; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (t-G 2/44). |
| C92.1.1 | Tabu: killing raven (Odin's bird). Fb "ravn" III 22a.—Krappe "Arturus cosmocrator" Speculum (1945) 405ff. |
| C92.1 | Tabu: killing sacred animals. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 442, Rasmussen II 25, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 180. |
| C92 | Tabu: killing sacred beings. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 320. No. 41. |
| C92.1.2 | Tabu: killing sacred calf. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C92.2 | Tabu: killing sacred dragon. (Cf. B11.)—Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 334 n. 1. |
| C92.1.5 | Tabu: killing scald-crow (goddess of war). Irish myth: Cross. |
| C92.1.3 | Tabu: killing shrew-mouse, sacred to the gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.1 | Tabu: killing stork. Bird was once maiden. (Cf. A1715, A1966.)—Dh III 286.—Fb "stork" III 592. |
| C92.1.4 | Tabu: killing stork. Fb "stork" III 592 ab. |
| C841.7 | Tabu: killing totem animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C735.2.3 | Tabu: king (hero) sleeping after sunrise at capital. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C563.3 | Tabu: king allowing rapine during his reign. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C319.1 | Tabu: king forbidden to look at his son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C563.2 | Tabu: king having physical blemish. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C563.4 | Tabu: king settling quarrel among thralls. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C402.1 | Tabu: king speaking before his druids speak. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C563.1 | Tabu: king traveling alone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C122 | Tabu: kissing fairies. This puts one in their power. (Cf. C112.) —English: Child I 322 and n., 325; Wimberly Folklore in Ballads 282ff. |
| C121 | Tabu: kissing supernatural husband. (Cf. C32.) *Type 425; BP II 234, 236 n. 1, 271; Sébillot France I 244, III 291; Dickson Valentine and Orson 55. |
| C120 | Tabu: kissing. Usually causes disenchantment or magic forgetfulness. (Cf. D735, D2003.)—*Type 313C, 410.—Grimm Nos. 113, 186, 193; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| C565.1 | Tabu: labor by bearded man. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C755.7 | Tabu: landing on certain island during forbidden period. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 508, 511. |
| C93.8 | Tabu: landing on floating island of the gods without invitation. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 68. |
| C462 | Tabu: laughing at sight of ghosts. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| C876 | Tabu: leaping a camping place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C282.1 | Tabu: leaving a feast before it is ended. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C751.6 | Tabu: leaving capital every ninth night. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C51.1.14 | Tabu: leaving corpse at shrine. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C755.1 | Tabu: leaving house within certain time. N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 463 No. 99; Samoa: Henry 346. |
| C868 | Tabu: leaving land entirely unoccupied. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (t-G 3/711). |
| C784.1 | Tabu: lending to witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 644, 652. |
| C784 | Tabu: lending. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 27. |
| C41.2 | Tabu: letting ball fall into water. *Type 440; BP I 1 (Gr. No. 1.) |
| C756.2 | Tabu: letting sun shine on girl before she is thirty years old. Fb "sol" III 458a. |
| C751.1 | Tabu: lighting fire at certain time. *Chauvin VII 116 No. 385; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C751.1.1 | Tabu: lighting fire before king lights one. (Cf. C756.)—Irish myth: Cross. |
| C631.4 | Tabu: lighting or extinguishing lights on sabbath. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C885.3 | Tabu: listening to certain lute. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C885.1 | Tabu: listening to fluttering of birds after sunset. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C885.2 | Tabu: listening to groans of women being violated. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C815 | Tabu: listening to mother's counsel. Fb "moder" II 600b. |
| C815.1 | Tabu: listening to princess's counsel. Canadian: Gautier. |
| C332 | Tabu: looking around. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 252. |
| C316.2 | Tabu: looking at caribou. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 241. |
| C316 | Tabu: looking at certain animal. |
| C315.1 | Tabu: looking at certain boat. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bateau".—Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 375, Rasmussen I 239. |
| C315 | Tabu: looking at certain object. |
| C319 | Tabu: looking at certain person or thing—miscellaneous. |
| C310 | Tabu: looking at certain person or thing. |
| C315.4 | Tabu: looking at certain well. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C311.1.8 | Tabu: looking at deity. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C311.1.2 | Tabu: looking at fairies. Fb "sygdom" III 699a.—Irish myth: Cross; England, Wales: Baughman. |
| C311.1.1 | Tabu: looking at ghosts. Fb "sygdom" III 699a.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C315.2 | Tabu: looking at heavenly body. |
| C311.2 | Tabu: looking at holy objects. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C311.1.3 | Tabu: looking at mountain-folk. Fb "sygdom" III 699a. |
| 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. |
| C312.2.2 | Tabu: looking at old woman helper as she eats. Gold Coast: Barker and Sinclair 90 No. 16. |
| C312.2.1 | Tabu: looking at princess on public appearance. *Chauvin V 61 No. 19; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C315.2.3 | Tabu: looking at rainbow. Jewish: Neuman; S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 39. |
| C311.1.7 | Tabu: looking at slain game before it dies. Eskimo (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 620. |
| C315.2.2.1 | Tabu: looking at sun before prince becomes fourteen years old. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C315.2.2 | Tabu: looking at sun. Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 180, (Greenland): Rink 441, Rasmussen III 51, Holm 72. |
| C32.1 | Tabu: looking at supernatural husband. *Type 425a; *BP II 234, 245ff., 266ff.; *Tegethoff Studien zum Märchentypus von Amor und Psyche 32; *Lang Cupid and Psyche (1886); *Fb "lys" II 483a.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C31.1.3 | Tabu: looking at supernatural wife naked. African: Werner 191. |
| C31.1.2 | Tabu: looking at supernatural wife on certain occasion. (Mélusine). The husband must not see the wife when she is transformed to an animal.—*Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXV (1933) 121; *Köhler-Bolte III 265nn. 1, 2; **Köhler Der Ursprung der Melusinensage (1895); Desaivre Le Mythe de la Mére Lusine (Extrait des Memoires de la Société de Statistique, Sciences, Lettres, et Arts de Deux-Sèvres [Saint-Maixent 1883]); Keightley Fairy Mythology 480; Baring-Gould Curious Myths 470; Hartland Science 201; Holmström Studier över Svanjungfrumotivet 100; M. Nowack Die Melusinensage (Diss. 1886); *Fränkel Zs. f. Vksk. IV 387; Jegerlehner Oberwallis 307 No. 24. |
| C31.1.1 | Tabu: looking at supernatural wife too soon. *BP III 114 (Gr. No. 137).—Middle English romance: Wells 145 (Parthenope of Blois). |
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