Mother-in-law tabu. Mother-in-law and son-in-law must not have anything to do with each other

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Mother-in-law tabu. Mother-in-law and son-in-law must not have anything to do with each other.

Tabu. · Sex tabu. · Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. · view the constellation · filed as C171

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.

Africa (Zulu)Callaway 164, (Upoto): Einstein 129.
general *Frazer Golden Bough XII 378 s. v. "mother-in-law"
general *Andree Ethnographische Parallelen (1878) 159. – Jewish: Neuman

Within the index

Filed under Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives.

Filed beside it

Sister-in-law tabu: older brother must avoid younger brother's wife Daughter-in-law tabu

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