Tabu: uttering secrets

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Tabu: uttering secrets.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Tabu: uttering secrets. · view the constellation · filed as C420

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

JewishNeuman
India*Thompson-Balys
S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 59.
general Fb "sten" III 553b. Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

12 finer motifs beneath it

Man (woman) persuaded to reveal fatal secret Tabu: not to speak about a certain happening Tabu: uttering secret overheard Tabu: revealing secret of supernatural husband Tabu: revealing identity of certain person Tabu: revealing the marvelous Tabu: speaking of good luck Tabu: revealing knowledge of animal languages Tabu: revealing secret song Tabu: revealing help of grateful animal Tabu: revealing time of Messiah's advent Tabu: uttering secrets – miscellaneous

Travels with

Tabu: revealing secrets of supernatural wife. (Cf. C420)Dwarfs' gifts cease when mortal betrays the source. (Cf. C420, F348.5.)Men not to disclose giant's home. (Cf. C420.)

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