Tabu: eating animal's genitals. (Cf. C229.2.)

Motif

Tabu: eating animal's genitals. (Cf. C229.2.)

Tabu. · Eating and drinking tabu. · Eating tabus. · Tabu: eating certain things. · view the constellation · filed as C221.3.1

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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.

Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 409.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: eating certain parts of animals.

Filed beside it

Tabu: breaking bones of eaten animal Tabu: eating bird's eggs at certain time of year Tabu: eating blubber Tabu: eating heart of animal (to commemorate relative whose heart was removed by king.)Tabu: eating sinew of thigh vein

Travels with

Tabu: women not to eat genitals (heart, liver, etc.) of animals. (Cf. C221.3.1.)

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