Tabu: using any except one certain phrase

Motif

Tabu: using any except one certain phrase.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Other speaking tabus. · view the constellation · filed as C495

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 Other speaking tabus.

3 finer motifs beneath it

All questions to be answered, "I don't know". A youth is so advised by his horse "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right". These expressions are the sole conversation of three men All questions to be answered "Thanks". Youth is so advised by old woman helper

Filed beside it

Substitutes for tabu expressions Tabu: expressing astonishment at marvel. (Cf. C411, C423.2.)Tabu: speaking to strangers Tabu: thanking (under certain circumstances)Tabu: cursing Tabu: using obscene language Tabu: speaking to the dead Speaking tabu: the one forbidden expression Additional speaking tabus

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