Tabu: touching (plucking) flowers

Motif

Tabu: touching (plucking) flowers.

Tabu. · Tabu: touching. · Tabu: touching tree (plant). · view the constellation · filed as C515

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.

HawaiiBeckwith Myth 17.
general Type 451
general Hartland Science 200. English-Scottish: Child I 360 n.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: touching tree (plant).

Filed beside it

Tabu: touching leaves (of tree)Tabu: plucking ear of grain Tabu: breaking twig Tabu: burning saja wood (terminalia tomentosa)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

Travels with

Conception from plucking flower. (Cf. C515.)

wander