Forbidden direction: west

Motif

Forbidden direction: west.

Tabu. · Unique prohibitions and compulsions. · The one forbidden thing. · The one forbidden place. · view the constellation · filed as C614.1.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Forbidden direction of travel. Person free to go in any other.

Filed beside it

Tabu: going in a certain direction while tending cattle Tabu: hunting in certain part of forest. (Cf. C612.)Forbidden direction: not to step outside a certain line Forbidden direction: north Forbidden direction: south Forbidden direction: east Tabu: going in direction either of sunset or sunrise

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