Tabus concerning weapons

Motif

Tabus concerning weapons.

Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Unclassified tabus. · Unclassified tabus. · view the constellation · filed as C835.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Irish mythCross [C855].

Within the index

Filed under Tabus concerning fighting.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: failing to make gift to magic lance. The lance kills offender Tabu: allowing spear-head to touch stone Tabu: putting spear-head between teeth Tabu: slaying woman with spear Tabu: reddening weapons without satiety Tabu: giving arms in pledge

Filed beside it

Tabu: refusing combat to anyone Tabu: going to (leaving) certain place without combat Tabu: fighting certain person

Travels with

Tabu: women not to touch man's weapons. (Cf. C835.2.)

wander