The constellation
C830 Unclassified tabus
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
beneath it
- Tabu: spinning. Saintyves Contes de Perrault 79ff · C832 entry
- Tabus for journeys · C833 entry
- Tabus concerning fighting · C835 entry
- Tabu: disobedience. All lodgers must obey host implicitly · C836 entry
- Tabu: loosing bridle in selling man transformed to horse. Disenchantment follows · C837 entry
- Tabu: killing certain animals · C841 entry
- Tabu: exposure to sunlight · C842 entry
- Tabu: pointing · C843 entry
- Tabu: playing flute · C844 entry
- Tabus concerning war · C845 entry
- Tabu: removing landmarks · C846 entry
- Tabu: giving away gifts received from animal · C847 entry
- Tabu: sleeping on bed made of totem-tree · C848 entry
- Tabu: wastefulness · C851 entry
- Tabus concerning entry into assembly · C853 entry
- Tabu: doing thing in certain manner. (Cf. C643, D1791.) · C854 entry
- Tabu: inciting horse at certain place · C857 entry
- Tabu: swimming with certain birds · C858 entry
- Tabu: following three red men to certain place · C863 entry
- Tabu: running a race · C865 entry
- Tabu: unusual cruelty · C867 entry
- Tabu: leaving land entirely unoccupied · C868 entry
- Tabu: refusing a request · C871 entry
- Tabu: turning away from (refusing requests of) poets · C872 entry