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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
C915.2. Animals escape when forbidden baskets opened. Origin of animals. India: Thompson-Balys.
A1731. Creation of animals as punishment for beating forbidden drum.
C915.2.1. Animals escape when forbidden calabash is opened. African (Yoruba): Frobenius Atlantis X 232f. No. 16.
C916. Continuous action started by breaking tabu.
D94.1.1. The cursed dancers. Dancers rude to holy man cursed and must keep dancing till Judgment Day. D1793. Magic results from eating or drinking. D2172. Continuing magic acts.
C916.1. Trespass betrayed by dripping candle. (Cf. C31.1, C32.1.) — *Type 425; *Tegethoff 39; *BP III 114.
C916.2. Animals produced when forbidden drum is beaten. Gold Coast: Barker and Sinclair 90, No. 16.
A1731. Creation of animals as punishment for beating forbidden drum. A2231.10. Crab beats deity's forbidden drum: eyes lift out of body.
C916.3. Magic porridge-pot keeps cooking. Against command, mother of owner bids pot to cook. It fills house with porridge and will not stop until ordered by mistress. — *Type 565; BP II 438ff.; *Aarne JSFO XXVII 67, 80; *Christensen Molboerne 177.
A1115.2. Why the sea is salt. Magic salt mill is stolen by sea-captain, who takes it aboard and orders it to grind. It will stop only for its master; ship sinks and keeps grinding salt. D1171.1. Magic pot. D1601.10.1. Self-cooking pot. D1651.3. Magic cooking-pot obeys only master.
C916.4. Spinning wheel continues spinning because woman has worked at forbidden time. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 166.
C917. Object magically appears when tabu is broken.
C917.1. Tabued pot broken: town appears. Africa (Vai): Ellis 187, No. 3.
C918. Mare from water world disappears when she is scolded and her halter used for common purposes. Irish myth: Cross.
C41. Tabu: offending water spirits. F989.13. Animal dives into lake and disappears.
C918.1. Marvelous cow offended disappears. Irish myth: Cross.
D1652.3. Cow with inexhaustible milk.
C920. Death for breaking tabu. Type 311; BP I 398ff (Grimm No. 46). — Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 68, 118, 134, 138, 371, 508; Marquesas: Handy 60, 67, 138; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (t-G 3/912, z-G 13/127, 317, z-G 3/1174); Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 341, Rasmussen II 341, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 51, 58, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 600; Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 101; S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 47; African (Angola): Chatelain 219 No. 39, (Ekoi): Talbot 178, (Kaffir): Kidd 237 No. 6, (Wakweli): Bender 43.
C822. Tabu: solving sphinx's riddle: sphinx perishes. F361.12. Fairies take vengeance for destruction of fairy mound. M101.3. Death as punishment for broken oath. M370. Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. N101.2. Inexorable fate: death for violating tabus. Q411. Death as punishment.
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.
