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upper world. F772.1. Tower of Babel: remarkably tall tower designed to reach sky.
C771.1.1. Wicked man constructs tower neither too large nor too high. (Santa Barbara.) Der Heiligen Leben u. Leiden (Leipzig, 1921) lOlff.
C771.2. Tabu: piling up mountains to reach heaven. Greek: Fox 144; *Frazer Ovid II 136.
C773. Tabu: aspiring to too much power. *Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 259 No. 54.
C773.1. Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished. *Type 555; *BP I 138; Grimm No. 19; *DeCock Volkssage 22ff.; *Wesselski Märchen 235; Irish myth: Cross; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *555B; India: Thompson-Balys.
C871. Tabu: refusing a request. J1512. Impossible demand rebuked. J2071. Three foolish wishes. J2500. Foolish extreme. L210. Modest choice best. Q338. Immoderate request punished.
C773.1.1. Tabu: asking for too great magic multiplication of coins. *Starck Der Alraun; Taylor JAFL XXXI 561f. — India: Thompson-Balys.
D2100.2. Coin multiplies itself.
C776. Tabu: counting possessions. *Fb "tælle" III 923a. — Irish: Beal XXI 337; Jewish: Neuman.
C897. Tabus concerning counting.
C780. Tabu: buying, selling, etc.
C781. Tabu: buying. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 810.
C781.1. Tabu: buying gallows flesh or living flesh. — *BP I 514.
C782. Tabu: selling. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 810.
C782.1. Tabu: selling used clothing. — Fb "klæder" II 200a.
C782.2. Tabu: selling to witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 843.
G200. Witches.
C783. Tabu: giving away.
C783.1. Tabu: giving certain money away. — Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "argent".
C783.2. Tabu: giving away rings. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule.
C784. Tabu: lending. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 27.
C784.1. Tabu: lending to witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 644, 652.
G200. Witches.
C785. Tabu: trying to save provision for another day. India: Thompson-Balys.
C810. Tabu: heeding persuasive person or thing.
C742. Tabu: striking monster twice. Though monster begs that hero strike him again, hero refuses. Monster would otherwise revive. C745. Tabu: heeding pleas of old woman for food and warmth.
C811. Tabu: heeding persuasive voices. Tsimshian: Boas RBAE XXXI 188.
