Tabu

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• Tabu: ringing of church bell by nun. C94.7
• Tabu: refusing homage to saint's bell. C94.8
• Tabu: disturbing austerities of an ascetic. C94.9
• Tabu: giving security for one excommunicated. C95
• Tabu: using miracle for trifling purpose. C96
• Tabu: resurrecting cat for trifling purpose. C96.1
• Other tabus in connection with sacred beings – miscellaneous. C99
• Tabu: facing the sun (sun-god) while urinating. (Cf. T521.) C99.1
• Tabu: urinating on fire (fire-god). C99.1.1
• Tabu: weaving leather shoes on pilgrimage. C99.2
• Sex tabu. C100
• Sex tabu broken: child born without bones. C101
• Tabu: sexual intercourse. C110
• Tabu: sexual relationship with girls of nobility while having sore on body. C110.1
• Tabu: loss of chastity. Hero loses power with loss of chastity. C111
• Tabu: sexual intercourse with unearthly beings. (Cf. C122.) C112
• Tabu: sodomy. C113
• Tabu: incest. C114
• Tabu: son seeing mother perform sex act. C114.1
• Sex tabu: man – niece. C114.2
• Tabu: adultery. C115
• Tabu: sexual intercourse in sacred precinct. (Cf. Q551.3.) C116
• Nuptial tabu. Man and wife forbidden intercourse for definite time. C117
• Tabu: intercourse with resuscitated wife for particular number of days. C117.1
• Tabu: violating woman. C118
• Tabu: violating insane woman. C118.1
• Miscellaneous tabus concerning sexual intercourse. C119
• Tabu: sexual intercourse at certain time. C119.1
• Tabu: sexual intercourse during illness. C119.1.1
• Tabu: sexual intercourse on Sabbath. C119.1.2
• Tabu: intercourse at hunting season. C119.1.3
• Tabu: sexual intercourse during religious festival (18 days). C119.1.4
• Tabu: intercourse before worship. C119.1.5
• Tabu: intercourse at night. C119.1.6
• Tabu: failure to sleep with guest unaccompanied by husband. C119.2
• Tabu: kissing. Usually causes disenchantment or magic forgetfulness. (Cf. D735, D2003.) C120
• Tabu: kissing supernatural husband. (Cf. C32.) C121
• Tabu: kissing fairies. This puts one in their power. (Cf. C112.) C122
• Tabu connected with puberty. C130
• Tabu: girl going forth at puberty. C131
• Tabu: male presence in girl's puberty-hut. C132
• Tabu connected with menses. C140
• Tabu: going forth during menses. C141
• Tabu: menstrous woman not to go near any cultivated field or crops will be ruined. C141.1
• Tabu: not to enter cowshed during menses. C141.2
• Tabu: not to enter water during menses. C141.3
• Tabu: sexual intercourse during menses. C142
• Tabu: eating from hands of menstruating women. C143
• Ground defiled by menstrual blood. C144
• Tabu: not to touch certain things during menses. C145
• Women must wear certain things during menstruation. C146
• Menstruating women must wear amulet of leaves when approaching certain valley. C146.1
• Tabu connected with childbirth. C150
• Tabu: man not to be present at childbirth. (Cf. C31.1.4.) C151
• Tabus during pregnancy. C152
• Tabu: violence to woman during pregnancy. C152.1
• Tabu: refusing unreasonable demand of pregnant woman. C152.2
• Eating tabus for pregnant woman. C152.3
• Pregnant woman not to eat food baked overnight. C152.3.1
• Certain foods tabu one (two) months before childbirth. C152.3.2
• Tabu: contact with woman at childbirth. C153
• Tabu: carrying corpse of woman who died in childbirth. C153.1
• Tabus following childbirth. C154
• Food tabus following childbirth. C154.1
• Tabu connected with marriage. C160
• Tabus for girl going to her husband. C161
• Tabu: marriage with certain person. C162
• Tabu: marrying queen of certain race. C162.1
• Tabu: fairy girl marrying mortal. C162.1.1
• Tabu: marrying unmanly person. C162.2
• Tabu: marrying outside of group (or caste). C162.3
• Tabu: neglecting sexual relations in marriage. C163
• Tabu: forcing wife. C164
• Tabu: marriage with person whose blood one has drunk. C165
• Tabu: playing at marriage ceremony. C167
• Boy who plays marriage-game finds he has actually been married to a spirit (invisible during ceremony). C167.1
• Tabu: disregarding dream warning against marriage. C168
• Woman marries in spite of warning dream. Bears blind child who soon dies. C168.1
• Tabu connected with marriage – miscellaneous. C169
• Tabu: not to lay down basket carrying bride on wedding journey. C169.1
• Tabu: giving younger daughter in marriage before elder. C169.2
• Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. C170
• Mother-in-law tabu. Mother-in-law and son-in-law must not have anything to do with each other. C171
• Sister-in-law tabu: older brother must avoid younger brother's wife. C172
• Daughter-in-law tabu. C173
• Tabu confined to one sex. C180
• Tabu confined to women. C181
• Tabu: woman not to touch husband's drum (magic object). C181.1
• Tabu: women not to participate in hunting activities. C181.2
• Tabu: women not to touch man's weapons. (Cf. C835.2.) C181.3
• Tabu: women not to climb on roof. C181.4
• Tabu: Baiga women not to tie cloth between legs. C181.5
• Tabu: Bondo women not to wear clothes. C181.6
• Grave (of man) upon which no women can look without foolish laugh or "sine crepitu ventris eius." C181.7
• Tabu: women not to eat pork. C181.8
• Tabu: Saora women not to wear gold earrings. C181.9
• Tabu: women riding in canoe. C181.10
• Mare not to be yoked to cart drawing corpse. C181.11
• Tabu: woman sacrificing in temple. C181.12
• Tabu confined to men. C182
• Tabu: men fishing at certain place. C182.1
• Tabu: man entering woman's quarters in her absence. C182.2
• Sex tabu – miscellaneous. C190
• Tabu: mortal lusting after goddess. C191
• Tabu: refusing to elope with woman who desires it. C192
• Tabu: consorting with a woman. C193
• Tabu: woman being in one's dwelling. C193.1
• Tabu: trysting with woman at certain place. C194
• Tabu: embracing at village gate. C194.1
• Tabu: taking the advice of a woman. C195
• Tabu: asking for king's daughter in marriage. C196
• Tabu: eating (general). C200
• Tabu: eating one's fill. C205
• Tabu: eating in certain place. C210
• Tabu: eating in other world. C211
• Tabu: eating in fairyland. C211.1
• Tabu: eating in lower world. C211.2
• Tabu: eating in land of ghosts. C211.2.1
• Tabu: eating in hell (hades). C211.2.2
• Tabu: sky dwellers eating on earth. C211.3
• Tabu: goddess eating on earth. C211.3.1
• Tabu: fairies eating mortal food. C211.3.2
• Married man not to eat in country of his parents. C215
• Tabu: eating from certain place – miscellaneous C219
• Tabu: eating from ground. Youth will eat only when on ox. C219.1
• Tabu: eating from fine pots. C219.2
• Tabu: eating off new mats. C219.3
• Tabu: eating from cooking hearth. C219.4
• Tabu: eating certain things. C220
• Tabu: eating food produced by a spell. C220.1
• Tabu: eating meat. C221
• Tabu: eating flesh of certain animal. C221.1
• Tabu: eating flesh of certain beast. C221.1.1
• Tabu: eating cow. C221.1.1.1
• Tabu: eating ox. C221.1.1.1.1
• Tabu: eating calf. C221.1.1.1.2
• Tabu: killing and cooking sacred cow. C221.1.1.1.3
• Tabu: eating horsemeat. C221.1.1.2
• Eating seal meat. C221.1.1.3
• Tabu: eating dog. C221.1.1.4
• Tabu: eating pork. C221.1.1.5
• Tabu: eating weasel. C221.1.1.6
• Tabu: eating mouse. C221.1.1.7
• Tabu: eating bird. C221.1.2
• Tabu: eating cassawary. C221.1.2.1
• Tabu: eating pigeon. C221.1.2.2
• Eating dove. (Cf. C549.) C221.1.2.3
• Tabu: eating eagle. C221.1.2.4
• Tabu: eating fish. C221.1.3
• Tabu: eating certain fish. C221.1.3.1
• Tabu: eating eel. C221.1.3.2
• Tabu: eating crabs. C221.1.3.3
• Tabu: eating shark. C221.1.3.4
• Eating totem animal (or animal namesake). C221.2
• Tabu: eating animal helper. C221.2.1
• Tabu: eating certain parts of animals. C221.3
• Tabu: eating animal's genitals. (Cf. C229.2.) C221.3.1
• Tabu: breaking bones of eaten animal. C221.3.2
• Tabu: eating bird's eggs at certain time of year. C221.3.3
• Tabu: eating blubber. C221.3.4
• Tabu: eating fat of animals. (Cf. C229.) C221.3.4.1
• Tabu: eating heart of animal (to commemorate relative whose heart was removed by king.) C221.3.5
• Tabu: eating sinew of thigh vein. C221.3.6
• Tabu: eating animal taken under certain circumstances. C221.4
• Tabu: wife eating first animal caught in trap. C221.4.1
• Tabu: eating fish caught with fish-hook made without proper incantations. C221.4.2
• Tabu: eating animals recklessly killed. C221.4.3
• Tabu: eating live animals or live parts of them. C221.5
• Tabu: eating certain vegetable. C224
• Tabu: eating beans. C224.1
• Tabu: eating forbidden herbs. C224.2
• Tabu: eating breadfruit. C224.3
• Tabu: horses' eating foreign provender. C224.4
• Tabu: eating certain fruit. C225
• Tabu: eating pomegranate seed. C225.1
• Tabu: eating certain plant. C226
• Why slayers of tigers must not eat certain plants. C226.0.1
• Tabu: eating human flesh. C227
• Why cannibalism is out of vogue. C227.1
• Tabu: eating certain thing – miscellaneous. C229
• Tabu: eating thick milk. C229.1
• Tabu: women not to eat genitals (heart, liver, etc.) of animals. (Cf. C221.3.1.) C229.2
• Tabu: eating griddle cakes (in Garden of Eden). C229.3
• Tabu: eating firstlings (animals, fruit, etc.) C229.4
• Eating meat with milk. (Cf. C271). C229.5
• Tabu: eating salt. C229.6
• Tabu: eating at certain time. C230
• Tabu: feasting for a week. C230.1
• Tabu: eating before certain time. C231
• Tabu: girl eating before being called by father. C231.1
• Tabu: eating before task is finished. C231.2
• Tabu: eating before offering woman food. C231.3
• Tabu: eating of magic catch before mother does. C231.3.1
• Tabu: eating before house of host has been righted. C231.4
• Eight handfuls of food only to be eaten during ceremony. C231.5
• Tabu: eating before three years have passed. C231.6
• Tabu: eating on journey. C232
• Tabu: bride eating on journey to husband. C232.1
• Tabu: eating while on visit home. C234
• Tabu: eating flesh on Maundy Thursday. C235