Tabu: plucking flowers from bed tended by fairies — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: plucking flowers from bed tended by fairies.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Visit to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F378.5

Filed across the traditions

England *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Tabus connected with trip to fairyland. (Cf. F348.5, F361.3.)

Filed beside it

Mortal expelled from fairyland for breaking tabu Tabu: touching ground on return from fairyland Tabu: bathing or touching water in lake in fairyland Mortal visiting in fairyland must keep his thought on the fairies Tabu: drinking from certain well in fairyland. Person does, finds himself alone on hillside. (Cf. C260.) Tabu: using fairy bath water, soap, or ointment on oneself while bathing fairy child. (Cf. F235.4.)

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