Tabu: abusing women or children — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: abusing women or children.

Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Unclassified tabus. · Unclassified tabus. · view the constellation · filed as C867.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross [C867].

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: unusual cruelty.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tabu: bearded men abusing women and children

Filed beside it

Tabu: stripping dead and slain

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Hero in battle refuses to slay charioteers, women, or physicians. (Cf. C867.1.)

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