Forbidden road. All roads may be taken except one

Motif

Forbidden road. All roads may be taken except one.

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

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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.

India*Thompson-Balys
general African (Zulu): Callaway 96, (Kaffir): Theal 86.

Within the index

Filed under The one forbidden place.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Forbidden direction of travel. Person free to go in any other Tabu: going through a wicket gate

Filed beside it

Forbidden chamber. Person allowed to enter all chambers of house except one Forbidden forest. (Cf. C614.1.0.2.)Forbidden body of water Tabu: feasting visitor at certain place Forbidden country The one forbidden place – miscellaneous

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