Tabu: using grain to clean child — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: using grain to clean child.

Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Unclassified tabus. · Unclassified tabus. · view the constellation · filed as C851.1.2

Filed across the traditions

German Grimm No. 194. → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 194

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: using food for unworthy purpose.

Filed beside it

Tabu: wiping children with bread

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

God changes nature of plant to punish wastefulness of man: yield of plant is decreased Why grain grows only at top of stalk (punishment for men's sinfulness)

Carried in tale types

Crime against Grain · ATU 779G* 1 recorded variant

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