Motif
ancestral kapu food and feared penalty
ancestral_kapu_food_and_feared_penalty
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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hawaiian
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Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends A LEGEND OF WAIALUA / THE SHARK-MAN, NANAUE / FISH STORIES AND SUPERSTITIONS / DEIFIED FISH SUPERSTITION; lines 6965-6975 confidence: high
Believers are “afraid to eat or touch these lest they suffer in consequence.”
The writer refers to the fish as the kapu fish of his ancestors and notes fear of penalty surrounding eating it.
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