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Group No. 51


Letter

C. Tabu

Group No.

C900 – C999

Group name

Punishment for breaking tabu

Description

C920.1. Death of children for breaking tabu. India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C920.2. Death of wife for breaking tabu. India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
C921. Immediate death for breaking tabu. (Cf. C52, C51.3, C453, C533.) – Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 46 (Semele), 199 (Anchises). – Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 294; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 375; African (Ekoi): Talbot, 18, 99, (A'Kikuyu): Barrett 41, (Yoruba): Parkinson 104, (Pangwe): Tessman 370f., (Fang): Tessman.
 
C923. Death by drowning for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 135 (Ajax the less), Grote I 284; Jewish: Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 118; Samoa: ibid. 25, 512; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (t-G 2/44, z-G 13/441); Marquesas: Handy 134; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 115, III 124.
 
C927. Burning as punishment for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 264; S. Am. Indian (Chamacoco): Métraux MAFLS XL 48; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 441, Rasmussen III 51, Holm 72.
 
C929.3. Beheading for breaking tabu. Cyprus: Hadjioannou Kypriako, Mythoi (Leukosia, 1948) No. 22; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C929.4. Death by stoning for breaking tabu. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
C930.1. Dishonor to children because of breaking tabu. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
C931. Building falls because of breaking of tabu. (Cf. C771.1.) – Hartland Science 221; Gaster Exempla 229 No. 239; Jewish: *Neuman; English: Wells 42 (Arthour and Merlin); Swedish: Wessman 71 No. 605; India: Thompson-Balys. – Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 245, (West Hudson Bay); Boas BAM XV 234.
 
C934.2. Land made sterile because of broken tabu. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C937. God's favor lost for breaking tabu. (Cf. C621.) – Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tahiti: Henry 85; New Hebrides: Codrington 387; African (Ekoi): Talbot 129.
 
C941.1. Leprosy from breaking tabu. Gaster Exempla 187 No. 10. – Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C943. Loss of sight for breaking tabu. (Cf. C51.2.) – See C312.1.1, C312.1.2 for references. – *Fb "öje" III 1166b; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Tahiti: Henry 143; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 241.
 
C944. Dumbness as punishment for breaking tabu. (Cf. C311.1.4.) – Type 710; Fb "stum"; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C947. Magic power lost by breaking tabu. India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C948. Mutilation as punishment for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C948.6. Hand cut off for broken tabu. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C948.7. Face chilled because of broken tabu. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C949.3. Sterility from breaking tabu. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C953. Person must remain in other world because of broken tabu. Greek myth: Grote 137; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 13; Jewish: Neuman; Marquesas: Handy 120, 122; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 371.
 
C955. Banishment from heaven for breaking tabu. German: Grimm No. 3; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C960. Transformation for breaking tabu. India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C961.1. Transformation to pillar of salt for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331.) – *Fb "se" III 173b, "sten" III 553b; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Hebrew: Genesis 19: 26; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C962. Transformation to animal for breaking tabu. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 334 n. 1; Jewish: Neuman; S. A. Indian (Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 35, (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 172; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 105, No. 29.
 
C966. Change of language for breaking tabu. Frazer Golden Bough XII 341 s.v. "Language". – Jewish: Neuman.
 
C982. Person beaten by whips for breaking tabu. Roberts Type 480, p. 216; Jewish: Neuman; African (Benga): Nassau 113 No. 11.
 
C984.2. Storm because of broken tabu. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C987. Curse as punishment for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C998. Trees wither because of broken tabu. Jewish: Neuman.

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