Tabu: fear of threatening animals while treasure is being raised

Motif

Tabu: fear of threatening animals while treasure is being raised.

Chance and fate. · Lucky accidents. · Treasure trove. · Unearthing hidden treasure. · view the constellation · filed as N553.5

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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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 76 No. 636.

Within the index

Filed under Tabus in effect while treasure is being unearthed.

Filed beside it

Tabu: incontinence while treasure is being raised Unlucky encounter causes treasure-seekers to talk and thus lose treasure Treasure finders must not take all of money Tabu: looking around while raising treasure

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