Tabu: offending other animal relatives

Motif

Tabu: offending other animal relatives.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending supernatural relative. · view the constellation · filed as C37

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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.

Eskimo (Mackenzie Area)Jenness 47, 49, (Greenland): Rink 144, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 156.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending supernatural relative.

Filed beside it

Tabu: offending supernatural wife. Upon slight offence the wife leaves for her old home Tabu: offending supernatural husband. (Cf. C36.)Offending supernatural child Tabu: offending animal wife Tabu: offending animal husband. (Cf. C32)

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