μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • HebrewLeviticus 15: 19ff.
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Frazer Golden Bough III 145ff., X 76ff.
Within the index

Filed under Tabu connected with menses.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Tabu: menstrous woman not to go near any cultivated field or crops will be ruinedTabu: not to enter cowshed during mensesTabu: not to enter water during menses
Filed beside it
Tabu: sexual intercourse during mensesTabu: eating from hands of menstruating womenGround defiled by menstrual bloodTabu: not to touch certain things during mensesWomen must wear certain things during menstruation

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