Tabu: losing consecrated wafer

Motif

Tabu: losing consecrated wafer.

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

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 Types 613, 671
general BP I 322 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending the gods.

3 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Tabu: offending goddess of fortune Tabu: touching possessions of god Tabu: being in presence of god Tabu: refusing credit to god Tabu: rivaling the gods Tabu: unseemly acts while carrying divine image Tabu: neglect of service to deity Tabu: profaning sacred day Tabu: disbelief in religious teachings Tabu: idolatry Tabu: attacking deity (sacred person)Tabu: failing to heed message of god Tabu: changing ritual Tabu: murmuring against deity Tabu: neglect of sacred fires Tabu: neglecting to fulfill vow made to god

Travels with

Princess's secret sickness from breaking tabu. (Cf. C55.)Magic sickness because girl has thrown away her consecrated wafer. (Cf. C55, C940.1.)Stolen sacred hosts put into coffin. Before death, a woman asks to put a bag into coffin. It is filled with hosts. (Cf. C55, D1031.1.1.)

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