μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tabu: touching with iron.

Tabu. · Tabu: touching. · Tabu: touching – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as C531

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Holm 93.
  • general *MacCulloch Childhood 339
  • general Hartland Science 163f.
  • general Fb "jærn" II 61a. Irish myth: Cross
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: touching – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it
Umbilical cord not to be cut with iron
Filed beside it
Tabu: touching water Tabu: touching box Tabu: stepping on bread (or otherwise misusing it) Tabu: not to clean houses with cow-dung Tabu: touching certain animals Tabu: contact with the dead Tabu: touching treasures of other world Tabu: picking up comb from ground. It belongs to fairy (witch) who will avenge insult Tabu: crushing eggs Tabu: touching certain clothes Tabu: striking certain rock Tabu: touching – miscellaneous

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