Tabu

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• Compulsion to leap yearly over stone one's size held in palm of hand. C684.3
• Compulsion to hold festival at certain intervals. C684.4
• Injunction: to give sample of food to dog before eating. Misfortune follows failure to do so. C685
• Injunction: to forsake woman who arouses love. C686
• Tabu: to refuse help to a woman. C686.1
• Injunction: to perform certain act daily. C687
• Injunction: to visit saint daily. C687.1
• Miscellaneous tabus. C700
• Tabus connected with other-world journeys. C710
• Tabu: going into bath on return from serpent kingdom. (Cf. C721.) C711
• Tabu: staying too long in other world. C712
• Tabu: staying too long in fairyland. (Cf. C713.3.) C712.1
• Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives. C713
• Tabu: merman's wife not to stay till church benediction. C713.1
• Tabu: wife of supernatural husband seeing old home. C713.2
• Tabu: wife of merman staying too long at home (on visit). (Cf. C712.1.) C713.3
• Tabu: beast-husband staying too long at home: becomes sick. C713.3.1
• Golden apple thrown to remind merman's wife not to forget to return to him. C713.4
• Tabus concerning requests made in otherworld. C714
• Only one present to be asked for at home of spirit son-in-law. C714.1
• Tabu: speaking in otherworld. (Cf. C400.) C715
• Tabu: speaking in fairyland. C715.1
• Tabu: making noise on way to other world. C715.2
• Tabu: removing hats while in otherworld. C716
• Tabu: attending toilet needs. C720
• Tabu: bathing. (Cf. C711.) C721
• Tabu: bathing during certain time. C721.1
• Tabu: bathing in certain place. C721.2
• Tabu: bathing in clear stream. C721.2.1
• Tabu: bathing without straining stream afterwards. C721.3
• Tabu: cutting hair. C722
• Tabu: shaving. C722.0.1
• Tabu: cutting hair during certain time. C722.1
• Tabu: combing hair. C723
• Tabu: combing hair during certain time. C723.1
• Tabu: attending call of nature at certain time. C725
• Tabu: use of water after attending call of nature. C725.1
• Tabu: trimming fingernails. C726
• Tabu: throwing away nail trimmings. C726.1
• Tabu: resting. C730
• Tabu: resting on journey. C731
• Tabu: sleeping. C735
• Tabu: sleeping during certain time. C735.1
• Tabu: sleeping in certain position during certain time. C735.1.0.1
• Tabu: bearded man sleeping at sunrise. C735.1.1
• Tabu: sleeping before task is finished. C735.1.2
• Tabu: sleeping in certain place. C735.2
• Tabu: sleeping in other world. C735.2.1
• Tabu: sleeping before lapse of seven days in cloudland. C735.2.1.1
• Tabu: sleeping in empty hut. C735.2.2
• Tabu: king (hero) sleeping after sunrise at capital. C735.2.3
• Tabu: sleeping in house lighted after sunset. C735.2.4
• Tabu: sleeping in cemetery. C735.2.5
• Tabu: sleeping on the path of ghosts. C735.2.6
• Tabu: sleeping on feather bed. C735.2.7
• Tabu: sleeping two nights in the same place until certain result is attained. C735.2.8
• Tabu: to rest sitting or lying until answer to certain question is learned. C735.2.9
• Tabu: sleeping at one's own home. C735.2.10
• Tabu: doing deed of mercy or courtesy. C740
• Tabu: relieving souls in hell. Boy who tends kettles in hell not allowed to raise covers to relieve poor souls. C741
• Tabu: striking monster twice. Though monster begs that hero strike him again, hero refuses. Monster would otherwise revive. C742
• Man must be killed with first blow: others will not harm him. C742.1
• Tabu: putting house in order for one man. C743
• Tabu: accepting an invitation. C744
• Tabu: entertaining strangers. C745
• Tabu: heeding pleas of old woman for food and warmth. (Old woman is transformed demon.) C745.1
• Tabu: watching a game without helping the losing player. C746
• Tabu: not to allow any other creature on raft. C747
• Time tabus. C750
• Tabu: doing thing at certain time. C751
• Tabu: lighting fire at certain time. C751.1
• Tabu: lighting fire before king lights one. (Cf. C756.) C751.1.1
• Tabu: sleeping with certain wife on Midsummer's Eve. C751.2
• Tabu: convening certain hunt at certain time. C751.3
• Tabu: going on water Monday after May Day. C751.4
• Tabu: making treaty at certain time. C751.5
• Tabu: leaving capital every ninth night. C751.6
• Tabu: doing thing at sunrise. C751.7
• Tabu: being in certain place at sunrise. C751.7.1
• Tabu: carrying food at night. C751.8
• Tabu: doing thing after certain time. C752
• Tabu: doing thing after sunset (nightfall). C752.1
• Tabu: bringing arms to capital after sunset. C752.1.1
• Tabu: crossing certain plain after sunset. C752.1.2
• Tabu: single person entering one's house after sunset. C752.1.3
• Tabu: allowing person to come to feast after sunset. C752.1.4
• Tabu: casting in graveyard after sunset. C752.1.5
• Tabu: using magic power after nightfall. C752.1.6
• Tabu: doing certain thing after sunrise. C752.2
• Tabu: supernatural creatures being abroad after sunrise. C752.2.1
• Conjurer must leave before sunrise. C752.2.2
• Tabu: doing thing during certain time. C755
• Tabu: leaving house within certain time. C755.1
• Telling tales except at certain time of year (or day). De Vries Het Sprookje 49. C755.2
• Tabu: coming to Ireland in time of peace. C755.3
• Tabu: going to certain place in March. C755.4
• Tabu: sitting on certain sepulchral mounds in autumn. C755.5
• Tabu: hunting in certain season. C755.6
• Tabu: hunting in hottest season. C755.6.1
• Tabu: landing on certain island during forbidden period. C755.7
• Tabu: going out at night by oneself. C755.8
• Tabu: doing thing before certain time. C756
• Tabu: ringing bell before certain time. C756.0.1
• Tabu: going home before dog precedes. C756.1
• Tabu: letting sun shine on girl before she is thirty years old. C756.2
• Tabu: going home before adventure is completed. C756.3
• Tabu: entering chariot less than three weeks after having eaten horseflesh. C756.4
• Tabu: doing thing too soon. C757
• Tabu: destroying animal skin of enchanted person too soon. C757.1
• Tabu: telling adventure in otherworld too soon. C757.2
• Tabu: doing thing too hastily. C758
• Monster born because of hasty (inconsiderate) wish of parents. C758.1
• Tabu: doing thing too long. C761
• Tabu: remaining on journey too long. C761.1
• Tabu: staying too long at home. C761.2
• Tabu: staying too long at ball. Must leave before certain hour. C761.3
• Tabu: staying too long in certain place. C761.4
• Tabu: staying two nights in one place until certain event is brought to pass. C761.4.1
• Tabu: staying too long in meadow of otherworld. C761.4.2
• Tabu: angel to remain on earth more than one week. C761.4.3
• Tabu: doing thing too often. C762
• Tabu: using magic power too often. C762.1
• Tabu: too much weeping for dead. C762.2
• Tabu: whipping magic horse more than once on journey. C762.3
• Tabu: taking more than one fruit from certain tree. C762.4
• "Take, but only twice." Man to take money from cursed chest only twice. C762.5
• Eating after one is satisfied. C766
• Tabu: killing more cattle than one can eat. C766.1
• Tabu: overweening pride. C770
• Overweening pride in good fortune forbidden. Man proud that he and his clan have never known unhappiness or want swallowed up by earth. C770.1
• Tabu: building too large a structure. C771
• Tabu: building too high a tower. (Tower of Babel.) C771.1
• Wicked man constructs tower neither too large nor too high. (Santa Barbara.) C771.1.1
• Tabu: piling up mountains to reach heaven. C771.2
• Tabu: aspiring to too much power. C773
• Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished. C773.1
• Tabu: asking for too great magic multiplication of coins. C773.1.1
• Tabu: counting possessions. C776
• Tabu: buying, selling, etc. C780
• Tabu: buying. C781
• Tabu: buying gallows flesh or living flesh. C781.1
• Tabu: selling. C782
• Tabu: selling used clothing. C782.1
• Tabu: selling to witch. C782.2
• Tabu: giving away. C783
• Tabu: giving certain money away. C783.1
• Tabu: giving away rings. C783.2
• Tabu: lending. C784
• Tabu: lending to witch. C784.1
• Tabu: trying to save provision for another day. C785
• Tabu: heeding persuasive person or thing. C810
• Tabu: heeding persuasive voices. C811
• Tabu: heeding persuasive voice of magic drum. Not to pick up drum that says "take me". C811.1
• Tabu: heeding magic yam that says not to take it up. C811.2
• Tabu: answering call when asleep. C811.3
• Tabu: pursuing certain animal. C812
• Tabu: listening to mother's counsel. C815
• Tabu: listening to princess's counsel. C815.1
• Tabu: finding certain secret. C820
• Tabu: finding age of monster. C821
• Tabu: solving sphinx's riddle: sphinx perishes. C822
• Tabu: finding name of ghost. C824
• Tabu: studying occult books. C825
• Unclassified tabus. C830
• Tabu: spinning. Saintyves Contes de Perrault 79ff. C832
• Tabus for journeys. C833
• Tabu: crossing river except at source. C833.1
• Tabu: turning aside for anyone. C833.2
• Tabu: turning back after beginning a journey. C833.3
• Tabu: driving horses over ashen yoke. C833.4
• Tabu: going with dry feet over certain river. C833.5
• Tabu: traveling beyond spot where feat of skill was performed before duplicating it. C833.6
• Tabu: proceeding after mishap to chariot. C833.7
• Tabu: going to certain place in speckled garment on speckled steed. C833.8
• Men sent on mission prohibited from fishing and quarreling. C833.9
• Tabus concerning fighting. C835
• Tabu: refusing combat to anyone. C835.1
• Tabu: bearded man refusing combat. C835.1.1
• Tabus concerning weapons. C835.2
• Tabu: failing to make gift to magic lance. The lance kills offender. C835.2.1
• Tabu: allowing spear-head to touch stone. C835.2.2
• Tabu: putting spear-head between teeth. C835.2.3
• Tabu: slaying woman with spear. C835.2.4
• Tabu: reddening weapons without satiety. C835.2.5
• Tabu: giving arms in pledge. C835.2.6
• Tabu: going to (leaving) certain place without combat. C835.3
• Tabu: fighting certain person. C835.4
• Tabu: fighting with a hag. C835.4.1
• Tabu: disobedience. All lodgers must obey host implicitly. C836
• Tabu: loosing bridle in selling man transformed to horse. Disenchantment follows. C837
• Tabu: killing certain animals. C841
• Clerics' voyage unsuccessful because they sailed in boats of skin. C841.0.1
• Tabu: wounding animal; must be killed outright. C841.0.2
• Tabu: killing animal which takes refuge with one. C841.0.3
• Tabu: killing stork. Bird was once maiden. (Cf. A1715, A1966.) C841.1
• Tabu: hunting birds. Supernatural lover (king of birds) tells woman that son must not do so. C841.2
• Tabu: burning caterpillars. C841.3
• Tabu: hunting a pig. C841.4
• Tabu: killing a swan. C841.5
• Tabu: killing golden duck. C841.6