Tabu: killing sacred animals

Motif

Tabu: killing sacred animals.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Other tabus in connection with sacred beings. · view the constellation · filed as C92.1

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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.

Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 442, Rasmussen II 25, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 180.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: killing sacred beings.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: killing animals for sacrifice. (Cf. C57.1.)Tabu: killing raven (Odin's bird)Tabu: killing sacred calf Tabu: killing shrew-mouse, sacred to the gods Tabu: killing stork Tabu: killing scald-crow (goddess of war)Tabu: killing other sacred bird

Filed beside it

Tabu: killing sacred dragon. (Cf. B11.)

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