Tabu: unusual cruelty — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: unusual cruelty.

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

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Filed under Unclassified tabus.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: abusing women or children Tabu: stripping dead and slain

Filed beside it

Tabu: spinning. Saintyves Contes de Perrault 79ff Tabus for journeys Tabus concerning fighting Tabu: disobedience. All lodgers must obey host implicitly Tabu: loosing bridle in selling man transformed to horse. Disenchantment follows Tabu: killing certain animals Tabu: exposure to sunlight Tabu: pointing Tabu: playing flute Tabus concerning war Tabu: removing landmarks Tabu: giving away gifts received from animal Tabu: sleeping on bed made of totem-tree Tabu: wastefulness Tabus concerning entry into assembly Tabu: doing thing in certain manner. (Cf. C643, D1791.)