Tabu: stealing from god or saint. (Cf. C51.1.2.)

Motif

Tabu: stealing from god or saint. (Cf. C51.1.2.)

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending the gods. · view the constellation · filed as C51.2

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.

GreekGrote I 145
TuamotuStimson MS (3–G 3/1386)
S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 173.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: touching possessions of god.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: wearing unauthorized sacred robe (jewel)Tabu: cutting sacred trees or groves. (Cf. C43.)Tabu: stealing wife of god Tabu: stealing from holy statue Tabu: violating refuge with saint

Filed beside it

Tabu: profaning shrine Tabu: revealing name of god Tabu: revealing secrets of god Tabu: imitating god Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god Tabu: touching stone image of deity with unwashed hands Tabu: giving away idol Tabu: pointing boat toward island of the gods

Travels with

Tabu: stealing from altar. (Cf. C51.2.)Tabu: stealing from spirits. (Cf. C51.2.)Loss of sight for breaking tabu. (Cf. C51.2.)

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