Tabu: shooting at consecrated wafer. Man's ghost wanders — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: shooting at consecrated wafer. Man's ghost wanders.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending the gods. · view the constellation · filed as C55.2

Filed across the traditions

Livonian Loorits in FFC LCVI 59 No. 138.
general Type 756C. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3320
general Legends Nos. 615–623

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: losing consecrated wafer.

Filed beside it

Tabu: stepping on sacred bread Bee-master puts consecrated host into beehive. Has success with his bees. (Cf. B259.4.) – When he dies, his spirit haunts the place

Carried in tale types

The Two Sinners (previously The Greater Sinner) · ATU 756C 2 recorded variants

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “consecrated” · wander