Tabus during pregnancy

Motif

Tabus during pregnancy.

Tabu. · Sex tabu. · Tabu connected with childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as C152

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general *Frazer Golden Bough I 141 n., III 147
general *Fb "glød", "grav", "gryn", "hul", "hvid" I 700b, "hår" I 771a, "ild" II 11b, "karklud", "kaste" II 103a, "kniv" II 221. India: Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu connected with childbirth.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: violence to woman during pregnancy Tabu: refusing unreasonable demand of pregnant woman Eating tabus for pregnant woman

Filed beside it

Tabu: man not to be present at childbirth. (Cf. C31.1.4.)Tabu: contact with woman at childbirth Tabus following childbirth

Carried in tale types

The Beautiful and the Ugly Twinsisters · ATU 7112 recorded variants

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