Forbidden door. All doors may be entered except one

Motif

Forbidden door. All doors may be entered except one.

Tabu. · Unique prohibitions and compulsions. · The one forbidden thing. · The one forbidden place. · view the constellation · filed as C611.1

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 275 No. 86
SenecaCurtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 75 No. 1.
general *Kirby FLJ V 112
general *Chauvin V 203 No. 117

Within the index

Filed under Forbidden chamber. Person allowed to enter all chambers of house except one.

1 finer motif beneath it

Prince not to be given eighth key until after he has ruled for five years

Filed beside it

Forbidden stables. Person allowed to enter everywhere but into three stables Forbidden ladder

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