Tabu: trimming fingernails — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: trimming fingernails.

Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Tabu: attending toilet needs. · view the constellation · filed as C726

Attested across traditions

Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 100 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 101 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman
German Grimm Nos. 100, 101.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: attending toilet needs.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tabu: throwing away nail trimmings

Filed beside it

Tabu: bathing. (Cf. C711.) Tabu: cutting hair Tabu: combing hair Tabu: attending call of nature at certain time

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Inexhaustible pocket furnishes money. (Cf. D1064.) Inscribed name on article as token of ownership. (Cf. H94.10.) Ring with names inscribed on it

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