Tabu: touching box

Motif

Tabu: touching box.

Tabu. · Tabu: touching. · Tabu: touching – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as C533

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Eskimo (Cumberland Sound)Boas BAM XV 203.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: touching – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tabu: touching magic box. (Cf. D1174.)

Filed beside it

Tabu: touching with iron Tabu: touching water 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

Travels with

Immediate death for breaking tabu. (Cf. C52, C51.3, C453, C533.)

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