Tabus of heroes

Motif

Tabus of heroes.

Tabu. · Class tabu. · Tabu: things not to be done by certain class. · view the constellation · filed as C566

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.

Irish mythCross
JewishNeuman.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: things not to be done by certain class.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: fish hero snaring a being in the bays of his land Tabu: birds feeding on hero's land without leaving him something Tabu: women leaving hero's land without his knowing it Tabu: women marrying until hero has chosen their husbands Tabu: warriors being in hero's land without receiving challenge from him Tabu: sex activity for warriors. (Cf. C110.)

Filed beside it

Tabus of slaves Tabus of kings Tabus of chiefs Tabus of bearded men Tabus of princesses Tabus of poets Tabus of a thief Tabus of priests Tabus of bastards Tabus of strangers

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