Tabu: breaking the sabbath

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

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

HebrewExodus 20
Irish mythCross
Finnish-SwedishWessman 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

Devil appears to Sabbath breakers. (Cf. C631.)Fortress built on Sunday destroyed by tempest. (Cf. C631, Q223.6.)

Carried in tale types

Breaking the Sabbath · ATU 779J*1 recorded variant

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