Tabu: cutting down tree

Motif

Tabu: cutting down tree.

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

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.

JewishNeuman
MaoriClark 95
TuamotuStimson MS (z–G 3/1174).

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: touching tree (plant).

2 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside 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: touching tree (plant) – miscellaneous

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