Tabu: breaking twig — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: breaking twig.

Tabu. · Tabu: touching. · Tabu: touching tree (plant). · view the constellation · filed as C513

Cited in the index

general BP III 62f.
general Hdwb. d. Märchens s. v. "Baum".

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: touching tree (plant).

1 finer motif beneath it

Tabu: cutting branches of tree

Filed beside it

Tabu: touching leaves (of tree) Tabu: plucking ear of grain 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

Carried in tale types

One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes · ATU 511 12 recorded variants

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