Tabu: touching treasures of other world

Motif

Tabu: touching treasures of other world.

Tabu. · Tabu: touching. · Tabu: touching – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as C542

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general *Krappe Balor 125 n. 17. Icel.: Herrmann Saxo II 589
general MacCulloch Eddic 321, *Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: touching – miscellaneous.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: contact with things on journey to hell Tabu: touching fire in other world

Filed beside it

Tabu: touching with iron 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: 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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