μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tabu: women not to touch man's weapons. (Cf. C835.2.)

Tabu. · Sex tabu. · Tabu confined to one sex. · view the constellation · filed as C181.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg.
  • general *Krappe Études de Mythologie 115ff., Jewish: Neuman
Within the index

Filed under Tabu confined to women.

Filed beside it
Tabu: woman not to touch husband's drum (magic object) Tabu: women not to participate in hunting activities Tabu: women not to climb on roof Tabu: Baiga women not to tie cloth between legs Tabu: Bondo women not to wear clothes Grave (of man) upon which no women can look without foolish laugh or "sine crepitu ventris eius." Tabu: women not to eat pork Tabu: Saora women not to wear gold earrings Tabu: women riding in canoe Mare not to be yoked to cart drawing corpse Tabu: woman sacrificing in temple
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Tabus concerning weapons

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