μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tabu: touching tree (plant).

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Breton Sébillot 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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