Tabu: eating certain parts of animals

Motif

Tabu: eating certain parts of animals.

Tabu. · Eating and drinking tabu. · Eating tabus. · Tabu: eating certain things. · view the constellation · filed as C221.3

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general *Encyc. Religion and Ethics I 492b.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: eating meat.

6 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

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

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