Tabu

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• "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right": phrases of foreign language. Three travelers know each one phrase of a foreign language. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.2
• "Yes" – "No" – "Very well". C495.2.2.1
• All questions to be answered "Thanks". Youth is so advised by old woman helper. C495.3
• Tabu: using obscene language. C496
• Tabu: speaking to the dead. C497
• Speaking tabu: the one forbidden expression. C498
• Speaking tabu: the one forbidden expression C498.1
• Additional speaking tabus. C499
• Tabu: announcing death directly. C499.1
• Tabu: complimenting. C499.2
• Tabu: touching. C500
• Tabu: contact with things belonging to a king. C501
• Tabu: touching tree (plant). C510
• Tabu: touching leaves (of tree). C511
• Tabu: plucking ear of grain. C512
• Tabu: breaking twig. C513
• Tabu: cutting branches of tree. C513.1
• Tabu: burning saja wood (terminalia tomentosa). C514
• Tabu: touching (plucking) flowers. C515
• Tabu: lying under tree. Girl who does so carried off by fairies. (Cf. C520.) C516
• Tabu: pulling nuts. English-Scottish: Child I 360 n. C517
• Tabu: cutting down tree. C518
• Cutting elder tree fatal to man. (Cf. C920.) C518.1
• Cutting white thorn tree fatal to man who cuts it. (Cf. C920.) C518.2
• Tabu: touching tree (plant) – miscellaneous. C519
• Tabu: harming tree in any way before burning it. C519.1
• Tabu: touching ground. (Cf. C516.) C520
• Tabu: dismounting from horse. C521
• Tabu: dismounting from magic sack. C521.1
• Tabu: plowing in certain place. C522
• Tabu: digging. (Cf. C522.) C523
• Tabu: digging up certain stones. C523.1
• Tabu: digging in fairy ring. C523.2
• Tabu: disembarking from boat on return from other world. C524
• Tabu: picking up card fallen to ground. C525
• Tabu: touching sacred mountain. C526
• Tabu: touching – miscellaneous. C530
• Tabu: touching with iron. C531
• Umbilical cord not to be cut with iron. C531.1
• Tabu: touching water. C532
• Tabu: touching box. C533
• Tabu: touching magic box. (Cf. D1174.) C533.1
• Tabu: stepping on bread (or otherwise misusing it). C535
• Tabu: not to clean houses with cow-dung. C536
• Tabu: touching certain animals. C537
• Tabu: touching camel after he has retired from work. C537.1
• Tabu: touching hairless dog. C537.2
• Tabu: touching horse or moving dead cat or dog. C537.3
• Tabu: contact with the dead. C541
• Tabu: dead body not to be on ship. C541.1
• Head of slain man must not be moved. C541.2
• Tabu: touching bones of murdered person. C541.3
• Tabu: lying on ancestors' bones. C541.4
• Tabu: taking down corpse of hanged man. C541.5
• Tabu: embalming. C541.6
• Tabu: touching treasures of other world. C542
• Tabu: contact with things on journey to hell. C542.1
• Tabu: touching fire in other world. C542.2
• Tabu: picking up comb from ground. It belongs to fairy (witch) who will avenge insult. C543
• Tabu: crushing eggs. C544
• Tabu: crushing lizard's eggs. C544.1
• Tabu: touching certain clothes. C545
• Tabu: touching old clothes. (Abandoned clothes should be thrown away.) C545.1
• Tabu: touching clothes of certain person. C545.2
• Tabu: touching dress. C545.3
• Tabu: striking certain rock. C546
• Tabu: touching – miscellaneous. C549
• Tabu: tiger and lion after having killed a man not to touch certain animals: cow, buffalo, pig, deer, wild goat. C549.1
• Tabu: touching a horse or moving a dead cat or dog. C549.1.1
• Tabu: touching soldiers of enchanted (sleeping) army and their horses. C549.2
• Class tabu. C550
• Untouchables. Certain castes whose touch is considered a pollution. C551
• Tabu: touching food of another caste. C551.1
• Tabu: things not to be done by certain class. C560
• Tabus of slaves. C561
• Tabu: slave going near fetish. C561.1
• Tabus of kings. C563
• Tabu: king traveling alone. C563.1
• Tabu: king having physical blemish. C563.2
• Tabu: king allowing rapine during his reign. C563.3
• Tabu: king settling quarrel among thralls. C563.4
• Tabu: appearing before king without having been summoned. C563.5
• Tabu: killing king, even at his own request. C563.6
• Tabus of chiefs. C564
• Tabu: chief being in ale-house when there is no story-telling. C564.1
• Tabu: chief's troop not having a herald. C564.2
• Tabu: chief to be in large company without wolf-hounds. C564.3
• Cloth from certain bark tabu to all except chiefs. C564.4
• Tabu: altar smoke from sacrifice touching young chief. C564.5
• Tabu: teaching genealogy of chiefs to commoners. C564.6
• Tabu: touching head of chief. C564.7
• Tabu: chieftainess preparing food. C564.8
• Tabu: chief going outdoors in spite of provocations. C564.9
• Tabus of bearded men. C565
• Tabu: labor by bearded man. C565.1
• Tabu: bearded man being lazy. C565.2
• Tabus of heroes. C566
• Tabu: fish hero snaring a being in the bays of his land. C566.1
• Tabu: birds feeding on hero's land without leaving him something. C566.2
• Tabu: women leaving hero's land without his knowing it. C566.3
• Tabu: women marrying until hero has chosen their husbands. C566.4
• Tabu: warriors being in hero's land without receiving challenge from him. C566.5
• Tabu: sex activity for warriors. (Cf. C110.) C566.6
• Tabus of princesses. C567
• Tabu: eloping with king's daughter. C567.1
• Tabu: princess stepping in water. C567.2
• Tabus of poets. C568
• Tabu: poets to be ignorant of national literature. C568.1
• Tabus of a thief. C572
• Tabus of priests. C573
• Tabus of bastards. C575
• Tabus of strangers. C576
• Unique prohibition. A person is forbidden to do one particular thing; everything else he is free to do. C600
• Unique prohibition announced by mysterious voice. C601
• The one forbidden place. C610
• Forbidden chamber. Person allowed to enter all chambers of house except one. C611
• Forbidden door. All doors may be entered except one. C611.1
• Prince not to be given eighth key until after he has ruled for five years. C611.1.1
• Forbidden stables. Person allowed to enter everywhere but into three stables. C611.2
• Forbidden ladder. C611.3
• Forbidden forest. (Cf. C614.1.0.2.) C612
• Forbidden road. All roads may be taken except one. C614
• Forbidden direction of travel. Person free to go in any other. C614.1
• Tabu: going in a certain direction while tending cattle. C614.1.0.1
• Tabu: hunting in certain part of forest. (Cf. C612.) C614.1.0.2
• Forbidden direction: not to step outside a certain line. C614.1.0.3
• Forbidden direction: north. C614.1.1
• Forbidden direction: south. C614.1.2
• Forbidden direction: west. C614.1.3
• Forbidden direction: east. C614.1.4
• Tabu: going in direction either of sunset or sunrise. C614.1.5
• Tabu: going through a wicket gate. C614.2
• Forbidden body of water. C615
• Forbidden lake (pool). C615.1
• Hero not to swim in certain lake. C615.2
• Lake forbidden at certain time. C615.3
• Tabu: not to rest near a lake. C615.4
• Certain pool to be approached only when properly attired. C615.5
• Tabu: feasting visitor at certain place. C616
• Forbidden country. C617
• Forbidden (perilous) ford. C617.1
• The one forbidden place – miscellaneous. C619
• Forbidden hostel. C619.1
• Tabu: going into wild boar's haunt. C619.2
• Forbidden horse fair. C619.3
• Tabu: women to be on certain island. C619.4
• Tabu: partaking of the one forbidden object. C620
• Forbidden tree. Fruit of all trees may be eaten, except one. C621
• Tree of knowledge forbidden. C621.1
• Tabu: touching fruit. C621.2
• Tabu: touching apple. C621.2.1
• Tabu: touching banana. C621.2.2
• Forbidden drinking horn. One may drink from anything else. C622
• Forbidden well. (One may not go there unless accompanied by cup-bearers.) C623
• Well upon which no one can look without losing his eyes. C623.1
• Forbidden barrel. C624
• Tabu: opening bottle. C625
• Tabu: the one forbidden time. C630
• Tabu: breaking the sabbath. C631
• Tabu: journeying on sabbath. C631.1
• Tabu: spinning on holy days. C631.2
• Tabu: washing hair on sabbath. C631.3
• Tabu: lighting or extinguishing lights on sabbath. C631.4
• Tabu: writing on sabbath. C631.5
• Tabu: playing music on sabbath. C631.6
• Tabu: going abroad on Hallowe'en. C632
• Tabu: fasting on holidays. C634
• Tabu: giving ring at certain time. C635
• Tabu: hunting on shortest day in the year. C636
• Unique prohibition – miscellaneous. C640
• Tabu: making war against certain tribe. C641
• Tabu: making war against certain tribe on Tuesday. C641.1
• Tabu: making peace with certain tribe. C642
• Tabu: turning left side of chariot toward certain place. C643
• The one forbidden thing: returning to home country after marrying fairy. C644
• The one compulsory thing. Unless one does this one thing, misfortune comes. (Sometimes one is under magic compulsion.) C650
• Customs connected with unique compulsion. C650.1
• The one compulsory question. Percival must ask the meaning of the strange sights he sees; else the Fisher King will not be healed. C651
• Compulsion: taking back talisman which opened treasure mountain. Hero takes treasure and forgets the talisman. C652
• Only one certain gift must be accepted. C655
• Only peacock on the steeple of the king's golden temple can be accepted as dowry. C655.1
• Girl from elfland must eat earthly food in order to remain. C661
• One must eat "death vegetable" whenever one sees it. Otherwise god will be angry. C662
• Compulsion to bathe in certain waters daily. C663
• Injunction: to marry first woman met. C664
• Injunction: to cohabit with first woman met after battle. C664.0.1
• Injunction: protect certain stone from molestation. C665
• Compulsion to go to certain place at certain time (or once each year). C666
• The one compulsory song. Beer cannot be brewed until an old man sings the song of the origin of beer. C671
• Compulsion to tell stories. C672
• Curse laid upon man by stories he fails to tell: they creep out of his belly when he is asleep and talk. C672.1
• Compulsion to give food to everyone met on journey. C675
• Other compulsions. C680
• Compulsion to answer cry. Hero is magically compelled to do so. C681
• Compulsion to regard hunting cry and follow hounds. C681.1
• Compulsion to invite singer to feast. Until that is done, the beer will not stop foaming. (Cf. C671.) C682
• Injunction: sleep where night overtakes you. Otherwise misfortune will come. C683
• Compulsion to perform certain task yearly. C684
• Compulsion to catch blackbird alive yearly. C684.1
• Compulsion to kill one of certain hogs yearly. C684.2