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C315.4. Tabu: looking at certain well. Irish myth: Cross.

C261. Tabu: drinking from certain fountain. F933.7. Well floods when gazed upon until mass said over it.

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.

B731.4.1. Cow with white ears. B731.4.2. Cow with red ears.

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.

Q227.4. Punishment for looking at saint's corpse.

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.

C915.1. Troubles escape when forbidden casket is opened. C915.1.1. Music-box continues playing when it is touched contrary to tabu. C922. Death by smothering for breaking tabu. N113. Casket with Good Luck in it given to men by Zeus.

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.

C757. Tabu: doing thing too soon.

C322. Tabu: looking into bag. India: Thompson-Balys; Takelau (Samoa): Beckwith Myth 25.

A2003. Origin of insects: released from sack. Looking tabu broken.

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."

A1174.1. Night (darkness) in package. Released.

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.

D1472.1.17. Magic bottle supplies drink.

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.

H1554.1. Test of curiosity: mouse in Jug.