Tabu: refusing a request — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: refusing a request.

Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Unclassified tabus. · Unclassified tabus. · view the constellation · filed as C871

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Unclassified tabus.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tabu: bearded man refusing request

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.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Generous person refuses no man anything. (Cf. C871.)

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