Tabu: digging. (Cf. C522.) — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: digging. (Cf. C522.)

Tabu. · Tabu: touching. · Tabu: touching ground. · view the constellation · filed as C523

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 50 receipt
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 51 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian Thompson Tales 332 n. 197.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: touching ground. (Cf. C516.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: digging up certain stones Tabu: digging in fairy ring

Filed beside it

Tabu: dismounting from horse Tabu: plowing in certain place 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: plowing in certain place

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Wish for supernatural husband (wife) realized. (Cf. C26.) Magic object answers for fugitive. Left behind to impersonate fugitive and delay pursuit Magic rosebush answers for fugitives. (Cf. D965.3.) Tell-tale magic objects Lecherous trickster seduces women from tree and loses them

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