Tabu: touching tree (plant)

Motif

Tabu: touching tree (plant).

Tabu. · Tabu: touching. · Tabu: touching tree (plant). · view the constellation · filed as C510

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.

BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "arbres". Jewish: Neuman
general Chatham Islands: Beckwith Myth 19, Notes 10, 11, 12.

Within the index

9 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: touching leaves (of tree)Tabu: plucking ear of grain Tabu: breaking twig Tabu: burning saja wood (terminalia tomentosa)Tabu: touching (plucking) flowers Tabu: lying under tree. Girl who does so carried off by fairies. (Cf. C520.)Tabu: pulling nuts. English-Scottish: Child I 360 n Tabu: cutting down tree Tabu: touching tree (plant) – miscellaneous

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