Forbidden tree. Fruit of all trees may be eaten, except one

Motif

Forbidden tree. Fruit of all trees may be eaten, except one.

Tabu. · Unique prohibitions and compulsions. · The one forbidden thing. · Tabu: partaking of the one forbidden object. · view the constellation · filed as C621

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationParadise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Book 9

Scholars’ trail — 9references

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
Spanish ExemplaKeller
Jewish*Neuman
SiberianHolmberg Siberian 381ff.
S. Am. Indian (Yuracare)ibid. 315.
general *Frazer Testament I 45ff.
general *Dh I 208ff. Irish myth: Cross
general Burmese, Indo-Chinese: Scott Indo-Chinese 265, 289. – N. Am. Indian (Biloxi): Dorsey and Swanton RBAE XLVII 32
general (Quiché): Alexander Lat. Am. 171

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: partaking of the one forbidden object.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tree of knowledge forbidden Tabu: touching fruit

Filed beside it

Forbidden drinking horn. One may drink from anything else Forbidden well. (One may not go there unless accompanied by cup-bearers.)Forbidden barrel Tabu: opening bottle

Travels with

God's favor lost for breaking tabu. (Cf. C621.)

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