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C761.4. Tabu: staying too long in certain place. Irish myth: Cross.
C712. Tabu: staying too long in otherworld.
C761.4.1. Tabu: staying two nights in one place until certain event is brought to pass. Irish myth: Cross.
C735.2.9. Tabu: to rest sitting or lying until answer to certain question is learned. M151.5. Vow not to eat or sleep until certain event is brought to pass.
C761.4.2. Tabu: staying too long in meadow of otherworld. India: Thompson-Balys.
F162. Landscape of otherworld.
C761.4.3. Tabu: angel to remain on earth more than one week. Jewish: Neuman.
C762. Tabu: doing thing too often.
C742. Tabu: striking monster twice.
C762.1. Tabu: using magic power too often. N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 299 n. 93; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 461.
D877. Magic object loses power by overuse. D1700—D2199. Magic powers. J2071. Three foolish wishes. Three wishes will be granted: used up foolishly. J2423. The eye-juggler. J2424. The sharpened leg.
C762.2. Tabu: too much weeping for dead. Persian: Carnoy 345. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 73, 80, Rasmussen III 166, 180.
A2234.4. Hare weeps for mother when forbidden: punished. D516. Transformation through excessive grief. E324. Dead child's friendly return to parents, frequently to stop weeping. E361. Return from the dead to stop weeping.
C762.3. Tabu: whipping magic horse more than once on journey. India: Thompson-Balys.
B181. Magic horse.
C762.4. Tabu: taking more than one fruit from certain tree. India: Thompson-Balys.
D877. Magic object loses power to overuse.
C762.5. "Take, but only twice." Man to take money from cursed chest only twice. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 36, 130.
C766. Eating after one is satisfied. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 182.
C766.1. Tabu: killing more cattle than one can eat. Icelandic: Boberg.
C770. Tabu: overweening pride. Jewish: *Neuman.
C54. Tabu: rivaling the gods. C450. Boasting. L400. Pride brought low. L420. Overweening ambition punished. Q331. Pride punished. W116. Vanity.
C770.1. Overweening pride in good fortune forbidden. Man proud that he and his clan have never known unhappiness or want swallowed up by earth. Spanish Exempla: Keller.
C771. Tabu: building too large a structure.
C771.1. Tabu: building too high a tower. (Tower of Babel.) Hebrew: Genesis II 3ff.; Frazer Testament I 362ff.; Jewish: *Neuman; Hartland Science 221. — Esthonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 453 f.; India: Thompson-Balys; Indo-Chinese: Scott Indo-Chinese 266f. — Maya: Alexander Lat. Am. 132; Aztec: ibid. 96. — African (Kaffir): Kidd 237 No. 6; (Ashanti): Werner African Myth 124.
