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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
C324.1. Tabu: looking into magic calabash. African: (Yoruba): Frobenius Atlantis X 232f. No. 16.
D1470.1.4. Magic wishing-calabash.
C325. Tabu: looking into the pots in hell. Type 475; Köhler-Bolte I 69.
E755.2.1. Souls of drowned in heated kettles in hell. Q561.2. Kettle heating in hell for certain person.
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.
A2234.3. Lemur looks where forbidden: has big eyes.
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.
C312.1.1. Tabu: man looking at nude goddess. C875. Tabu: carrying child back into house. C943.1. Man receives fork in eye for breaking tabu. C953. Person must remain in other world because of broken tabu. C961.1. Transformation to pillar of salt because of breaking tabu. C961.2. Transformation to stone for breaking tabu. F81.1. Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead.
C331.1. Tabu: looking back over left shoulder. Irish myth: Cross.
C331.2. Travelers to other world must not look back. (See all references to F81.1., Orpheus.) — Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 169, 299, Rasmussen III 124, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 51.
C331.3. Tabu: looking back during flight. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 84.
C332. Tabu: looking around. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 252.
C333. Tabu: looking up. Finnish: Kalevala rune 7.
C334. Tabu: looking over cemetery walls, lest one see ghosts. India: Thompson-Balys.
E400. Ghosts and revenants — miscellaneous.
C335. Tabu: looking down upon earth from sky world. S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 42.
C336. Tabu: woman in other world forbidden to look behind curtains. Kodiak: Golder JAFL XVI 30.
C337. Tabu: looking up chimney. Roberts Type 480, p. 175.
