Cutting white thorn tree fatal to man who cuts it. (Cf. C920.)

Motif

Cutting white thorn tree fatal to man who cuts it. (Cf. C920.)

Tabu. · Tabu: touching. · Tabu: touching tree (plant). · view the constellation · filed as C518.2

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.

IrelandBaughman
DanishKristensen Danske Sagn I No. 311, Fb "hvidtjørn" I 703 a.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: cutting down tree.

Filed beside it

Cutting elder tree fatal to man. (Cf. C920.)

Travels with

Death for breaking tabu

wander