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

Motif

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 12
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending spirits of water, mountain, etc.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: offending spirit of banyan tree Tabu: cutting certain trees lest tree-spirits be offended Felled tree restored for failure to make proper offerings to tree-spirit

Filed beside it

Tabu: offending water-spirit Tabu: offending mountain-spirit Tabu: offending guardian spirits Tabu: offending devil. A smith or priest continually insults the devil's statue or picture (cf. C13). The devil brings the offender into dangerous situation (suspicion of theft or murder), and saves him miraculously when he promises never again to abuse the devil's likeness Tabu: offending fairy

Travels with

Tabu: cutting sacred trees or groves. (Cf. C43.)Tabu: failing to heed message of god

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