Tabu: eating flesh of certain animal

Motif

Tabu: eating flesh of certain animal.

Tabu. · Eating and drinking tabu. · Eating tabus. · Tabu: eating certain things. · view the constellation · filed as C221.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Irish mythCross
HebrewLeviticus, ch. 11
IndiaThompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 636.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: eating meat.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: eating flesh of certain beast Tabu: eating bird Tabu: eating fish

Filed beside it

Eating totem animal (or animal namesake)Tabu: eating certain parts of animals Tabu: eating animal taken under certain circumstances Tabu: eating live animals or live parts of them

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