Vow not to shave or cut hair until a certain time

Motif

Vow not to shave or cut hair until a certain time.

Ordaining the future. · Vows and oaths. · Vows concerning personal appearance. · view the constellation · filed as M121

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXXX. Tabooed Persons

Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 39
SpanishBoggs FFC XC 53 No. 400B*
GreekRoscher Lexikon s. v. "Achilleus"
Jewish*Neuman.
general *BP II 431ff.
general A. Bugge "Harald Haarfagres løfte" Edda VII 166
general Helm Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte I 301
general Eitrem Opferritus und Voropfer (Skrifter Vidensk. Selsk. i Oslo No. 1, 1914) 400
general Frazer Golden Bough III 194
general Kruyt Het Animisme 33
general FFC LXXXIII xxiv. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 24, 45, Beal XXI 307, 316

Within the index

Filed under Vows concerning personal appearance.

Filed beside it

Vow: woman not to bind hair till enemy is conquered Vow not to change clothes till a certain time Vow not to wash till a certain time

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