Tabu: asking for reason of an unusual action

Motif

Tabu: asking for reason of an unusual action.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Tabu: asking questions. · view the constellation · filed as C411.1

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Spanish ExemplaKeller
PersianBricteux Contes Persans 97 No. 4
IndonesianDe Vries Volksverhalen I No. 35 n.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: asking about marvels which one sees. (Cf. C423.2, C491.)

Carried in tale types

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

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