Tabu: touching ground. (Cf. C516.) — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: touching ground. (Cf. C516.)

Tabu. · Tabu: touching. · Tabu: touching ground. · view the constellation · filed as C520

Filed across the traditions

Tahiti Beckwith Myth 246
Africa (Zulu) Callaway 303.
general Hartland Science 197. Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

6 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: dismounting from horse Tabu: plowing in certain place Tabu: digging. (Cf. C522.) Tabu: disembarking from boat on return from other world Tabu: picking up card fallen to ground Tabu: touching sacred mountain

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Tabu: lying under tree. Girl who does so carried off by fairies. (Cf. C520.) Limb broken for stepping on grave. (Cf. C520.)

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