Tabu: speaking while searching for treasure

Motif

Tabu: speaking while searching for treasure.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Speaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C401.3

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

GermanGrimm Deutsche Mythologie II 810ff., v.d. Leyen Sagenbuch IV 238ff.
NorwegianSkar Gamalt or Sætesdal III 135ff.
LappishQvigstad Lappiske Eventyr II No 134
EgyptianLegrain Louqsor sans les Pharaons 97. – England, U.S.: Baughman
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 693f. – Indonesian: Hambruch Malaiische Märchen 192.
general *Fb "stiltiende" III 569a, "skat" III 236b
general *Norlind Skattsägner 57ff. Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 298 No. 3
general Swedish-Finnish: Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VII (1) 857 (register)

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: speaking during certain time.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tabu: speaking about lost money which is to be regained by witchcraft. The loser cannot refrain from speaking of his loss; the money cannot be recovered

Filed beside it

Tabu: speaking during vigil Tabu: speaking during seven days of danger. As result of prophecy of seven days of danger, an injunction of silence is imposed during this period Tabu: speaking while raising sunken church bell Tabu: speaking while gathering fernseed to make wishes come true, at midnight on Christmas Eve when fernseed ripens and falls immediately Tabu: speaking while taking a bath

Travels with

Storm from calling up spirits to help find buried treasure. (Cf. C401.3.)

wander