Tabu: cutting certain trees lest tree-spirits be offended

Motif

Tabu: cutting certain trees lest tree-spirits be offended.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending spirits of water, mountain, etc. · view the constellation · filed as C43.2

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending wood-spirit. (Cf. C51.2.2, C64.)

Filed beside it

Tabu: offending spirit of banyan tree Felled tree restored for failure to make proper offerings to tree-spirit

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