C. Tabu
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*Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 294; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 375; African (Ekoi): Talbot, 18, 99, (A'Kikuyu): Barrett 41, (Yoruba): Parkinson 104, (Pangwe): Tessman 370f., (Fang): Tessman.
C855.1. Tabu: failing to make gift to magic lance. The lance kills.
C922. Death by smothering for breaking tabu. Man given secret box conveying the power of making women love him. He disobeys warning and opens it. The women smother him to death. (Cf. C321.) — N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 376 n. 19a.
D1355. Love-producing magic object. D1904. Love-compelling man sickens of bargain. F112.1. Man on Island of Fair Women overcome by loving women.
C922.1. Death by choking for breaking tabu. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 146.
K951. Murder by choking.
C923. Death by drowning for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 135 (Ajax the less), Grote I 284; Jewish: Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 118; Samoa: ibid. 25, 512; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (t-G 2/44, z-G 13/441); Marquesas: Handy 134; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 115, III 124.
A920.1.8.1. Lake from violating tabu. A1018. Flood as punishment. F933.6.1. Desecrated well overflows. Q552. Prodigy as punishment.
C924. Death by thirst for breaking tabu. (Cf. C949.4.) — African (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 67.
C925. Death from rattlesnake bite because of breaking tabu. Calif. Indian: Gay ton and Newman 100.
C926. Man (woman) vanishes on breaking of tabu. Calif Indian: Gayton and Newman 100; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 147.
C927. Burning as punishment for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 264; S. Am. Indian (Chamacoco): Métraux MAFLS XL 48; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 441, Rasmussen III 51, Holm 72.
Q414. Punishment: burning alive.
C927.1. Person turned to dust. India: Thompson-Balys.
C927.2. Falling to ashes as punishment for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys.
D2061.1.1. Person magically reduced to ashes. F378.1. Tabu: touching ground on return from fairyland.
C927.3. Burning and drowning as punishment for breaking tabu.
C435.1.1. Woman causes twofold death of mortal husband who utters her name. F901.2. Extraordinary twofold death: burning, drowning. K955. Murder by burning. M341.2.4.2. Prophecy: threefold death: wounding, burning, drowning. Q562.2. Souls in hell alternatively drown and burn.
C928. Death from insanity as punishment for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross.
C949.1. Insanity for breaking tabu.
C929. Death for breaking tabu — miscellaneous.
C929.1. "Shame and disgrace" threatened for refusing love of forthputting woman. Irish myth: Cross.
M438. Curse: humiliation. T55. Girl as wooer.
C929.2. Death from specific disease for breaking tabu.
