1,119 motifs match “tabu” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Lake from violating tabu. A920.1.8.1
• Flood as punishment for breaking tabu. A1018.1
• Origin of eating tabus. A1517
• Origin of tabus. A1587
• Tabus instituted by God or creator. A1587.1
• Tabus instituted by culture hero. A1587.2
• Tabu: contact withsupernatural. C0
• Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.). C10
• Tabu: offending spirits of the dead. C16
• Tabu: calling on ogre or destructive animal. C20
• Tabu: offending supernatural relative. C30
• Tabu: offending supernatural wife. Upon slight offence the wife leaves for her old home. C31
• Tabu: looking at supernatural wife. C31.1
• Tabu: looking at supernatural wife too soon. C31.1.1
• Tabu: looking at supernatural wife on certain occasion. (Mélusine). The husband must not see the wife when she is transformed to an animal. C31.1.2
• Tabu: looking at supernatural wife naked. C31.1.3
• Tabu: husband looking at supernatural wife in childbirth. (Cf. C151.) C31.1.4
• Tabu: opening gourd in which star-wife is kept. When curious girls do so, she flies up to sky. C31.1.5
• Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural wife. (Cf. C33.1, C35.1.) C31.2
• Tabu: disobeying supernatural wife. C31.3
• Tabu: blaming supernatural wife. C31.4
• Tabu: questioning supernatural wife. C31.4.1
• Tabu: scolding supernatural wife. C31.4.2
• Tabu: boasting of supernatural wife. C31.5
• Tabu: calling on supernatural wife. C31.6
• Tabu: lousing supernatural wife. C31.7
• Tabu: striking supernatural wife. C31.8
• Tabu: revealing secrets of supernatural wife. (Cf. C420). C31.9
• Tabu: giving garment back to supernatural (divine) wife. C31.10
• Tabu: reproaching supernatural wife about her sisters. C31.11
• Tabu: offending supernatural husband. (Cf. C36.) C32
• Tabu: looking at supernatural husband. C32.1
• Tabu: wife seeing transformed husband. C32.1.1
• Tabu: showing surprise when supernatural husband resumes his true shape. C32.1.2
• Tabu: questioning supernatural husband. C32.2
• Tabu: asking name of supernatural husband. (Cf C430.) C32.2.1
• Tabu: asking where supernatural husband comes from. (Cf. C421.) C32.2.2
• Tabu: asking for caste of supernatural husband. C32.2.3
• Tabu: not to touch too soon supernatural husband on visit. C32.3
• Tabu: mentioning origin of supernatural child. (Cf. C31.2, C35.1.) C33.1
• Tabu: offending animal wife. C35
• Tabu: mentioning origin of animal wife. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1.) C35.1
• Tabu: offending animal husband. (Cf. C32). C36
• Tabu: burning animal husband. C36.1
• Tabu: spying on animal husband. C36.2
• Tabu: offending other animal relatives. C37
• Tabu: offending spirits of water, mountain, etc. C40
• Tabu: offending water-spirit. C41
• Tabu: rescuing drowning man. C41.1
• Tabu: letting ball fall into water. C41.2
• Tabu: crossing water when spirits are offended. C41.3
• Tabu: skating over water when spirits are offended. C41.3.1
• Tabu: poisoning fish causes storm. C41.4
• Tabu: offending mountain-spirit. C42
• Tabu: offending wood-spirit. (Cf. C51.2.2, C64.) C43
• Tabu: offending spirit of banyan tree. C43.1
• Tabu: cutting certain trees lest tree-spirits be offended. C43.2
• Tabu: offending guardian spirits. C44
• Tabu: offending devil. A smith or priest continually insults the devil's statue or picture (cf. C13). The devil brings the offender into dangerous situation (suspicion of theft or murder), and saves him miraculously when he promises never again to abuse the devil's likeness. C45
• Tabu: offending fairy. C46
• Tabu: breaking promise to fairy: death on twelfth day. C46.1
• Tabu: offending the gods. C50
• Tabu: offending goddess of fortune. C50.1
• Tabu: touching possessions of god. C51
• Tabu: profaning shrine. C51.1
• Tabu: using altar for secular purposes. C51.1.1
• Tabu: stealing from altar. (Cf. C51.2.) C51.1.2
• Tabu: stealing from sacred booty. C51.1.2.1
• Tabu: breathing on sacred fire. C51.1.3
• Tabu: misuse of money in alms box. C51.1.4
• Tabu: dancing in churchyard. C51.1.5
• Tabu: discontinuing use of a church. C51.1.6
• Tabu: peeping at sacred font. (Cf. C300.) C51.1.7
• Tabu: allowing a drop to fall upon altar. C51.1.8
• Tabu: unworthy men to enter or see sanctuary. (Cf. C300.) C51.1.9
• Tabu: to enter sacred places closed to the female sex. (Cf. C51.1.2.) C51.1.10
• Tabu: striking tree which belongs to deity. C51.1.12
• Tabu: treating scornfully statue and dress of goddess. C51.1.13
• Tabu: leaving corpse at shrine. C51.1.14
• Tabu: wearing shoes at shrine. C51.1.15
• Tabu: stealing from god or saint. (Cf. C51.1.2.) C51.2
• Tabu: wearing unauthorized sacred robe (jewel). C51.2.1
• Tabu: cutting sacred trees or groves. (Cf. C43.) C51.2.2
• Tabu: taking fruit and fish dedicated to goddess. (Cf. C221, C225, C241.) C51.2.2.1
• Tabu: stealing wife of god. C51.2.3
• Tabu: stealing from holy statue. C51.2.4
• Tabu: violating refuge with saint. C51.2.5
• Tabu: revealing name of god. C51.3
• Tabu: desecration of God's name. C51.3.1
• Tabu: revealing secrets of god. C51.4
• Tabu: betraying privacy of god. Emperor visited by God conceals his wife so that she may hear. God ceases his visits. C51.4.1
• Tabu: spying on secret help of angels. C51.4.2
• Tabu: spying on secret help of fairies. C51.4.3
• Tabu: imitating god. C51.5
• Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god. C51.6
• Tabu: touching stone image of deity with unwashed hands. C51.7
• Tabu: giving away idol. C51.8
• Tabu: pointing boat toward island of the gods. C51.9
• Tabu: being in presence of god. C52
• Tabu: coming suddenly on supernatural creatures. C52.2