Eating totem animal (or animal namesake)

Motif

Eating totem animal (or animal namesake).

Tabu. · Eating and drinking tabu. · Eating tabus. · Tabu: eating certain things. · view the constellation · filed as C221.2

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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. – Hupa: Goddard UCal I 154
Eskimo (Mackenzie Area)Jenness 52
African*Werner African 276ff.
general Frazer Golden Bough VIII 25ff. Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 156
general Iroquois. Smith RBAE II 85
general Tshi: Ellis Tshi-Speaking Peoples 211. – Australian: Parker 40ff.
general Bougainville: Wheeler 58.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: eating meat.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tabu: eating animal helper

Filed beside it

Tabu: eating flesh of certain animal 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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