Tabu: Baiga women not to tie cloth between legs

Motif

Tabu: Baiga women not to tie cloth between legs.

Tabu. · Sex tabu. · Tabu confined to one sex. · view the constellation · filed as C181.5

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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

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