μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tabu: breaking the sabbath.

Tabu. · Unique prohibitions and compulsions. · The one forbidden thing. · Tabu: the one forbidden time. · view the constellation · filed as C631

Filed across the traditions
  • Hebrew Exodus 20
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 17f. Nos. 157–170.
  • general 8–12. – Jewish: *Neuman
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: the one forbidden time.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Tabu: journeying on sabbath Tabu: spinning on holy days Tabu: washing hair on sabbath Tabu: lighting or extinguishing lights on sabbath Tabu: writing on sabbath Tabu: playing music on sabbath
Filed beside it
Tabu: going abroad on Hallowe'en Tabu: fasting on holidays Tabu: giving ring at certain time Tabu: hunting on shortest day in the year
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Devil appears to Sabbath breakers. (Cf. C631.) Fortress built on Sunday destroyed by tempest. (Cf. C631, Q223.6.)
Carried in tale types

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