Tabu: asking questions

Motif

Tabu: asking questions.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Tabu: asking questions. · view the constellation · filed as C410

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.

general *Chauvin V 251, 296, VIII 47 No. 15 n. 1. India: Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

3 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: asking about marvels which one sees. (Cf. C423.2, C491.)Tabu: expressing surprise in lower world of dead Tabu: asking prophet for signs

Carried in tale types

Angel and Hermit (previously God's Justice Vindicated) [J225 · ATU 7594 recorded variants

wander