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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
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Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
W
Traits of Character
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Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| C641 | Tabu: making war against certain tribe. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C641.1 | Tabu: making war against certain tribe on Tuesday. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C642 | Tabu: making peace with certain tribe. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C643 | Tabu: turning left side of chariot toward certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C644 | The one forbidden thing: returning to home country after marrying fairy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C650 | The one compulsory thing. Unless one does this one thing, misfortune comes. (Sometimes one is under magic compulsion.)—**Reinhard the Survival of Geis in Mediaeval Romance.—Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 177ff., passim, *Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt II 307; Beal XXI 312. |
| C650.1 | Customs connected with unique compulsion. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C651 | The one compulsory question. Percival must ask the meaning of the strange sights he sees; else the Fisher King will not be healed.—Voretzsch Altfranz Lit. 325 (Chretien de Troyes Conte del Graal). |
| C652 | Compulsion: taking back talisman which opened treasure mountain. Hero takes treasure and forgets the talisman.—*Krappe Balor 109ff. |
| C655 | Only one certain gift must be accepted. |
| C655.1 | Only peacock on the steeple of the king's golden temple can be accepted as dowry. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C661 | Girl from elfland must eat earthly food in order to remain. *Fb "spise" III 495b. |
| C662 | One must eat "death vegetable" whenever one sees it. Otherwise god will be angry. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C663 | Compulsion to bathe in certain waters daily. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C664 | Injunction: to marry first woman met. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C664.0.1 | Injunction: to cohabit with first woman met after battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C665 | Injunction: protect certain stone from molestation. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C666 | Compulsion to go to certain place at certain time (or once each year). Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C671 | The one compulsory song. Beer cannot be brewed until an old man sings the song of the origin of beer.—Finnish: Kalevala rune 20. |
| C672 | Compulsion to tell stories. |
| C672.1 | Curse laid upon man by stories he fails to tell: they creep out of his belly when he is asleep and talk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C675 | Compulsion to give food to everyone met on journey. African (Jaunde): Nekes 251. |
| C680 | Other compulsions. |
| C681 | Compulsion to answer cry. Hero is magically compelled to do so. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C681.1 | Compulsion to regard hunting cry and follow hounds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C682 | Compulsion to invite singer to feast. Until that is done, the beer will not stop foaming. (Cf. C671.)—Finnish: Kalevala rune 20. |
| C683 | Injunction: sleep where night overtakes you. Otherwise misfortune will come.—Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 213 No. 73. |
| C684 | Compulsion to perform certain task yearly. |
| C684.1 | Compulsion to catch blackbird alive yearly. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C684.2 | Compulsion to kill one of certain hogs yearly. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C684.3 | Compulsion to leap yearly over stone one's size held in palm of hand. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C684.4 | Compulsion to hold festival at certain intervals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C685 | Injunction: to give sample of food to dog before eating. Misfortune follows failure to do so.—Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 63 No. 453. |
| C686 | Injunction: to forsake woman who arouses love. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C686.1 | Tabu: to refuse help to a woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C687 | Injunction: to perform certain act daily. |
| C687.1 | Injunction: to visit saint daily. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C700 | Miscellaneous tabus. |
| C710 | Tabus connected with other-world journeys. Babylonian: Gilgamesch-Epos XII p. 64ff.—Icelandic: Boberg; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 371, 440, Rasmussen III 170; Marquesas: Beckwith Myth 149. |
| C711 | Tabu: going into bath on return from serpent kingdom. (Cf. C721.) —Chauvin V 257 No. 152. |
| C712 | Tabu: staying too long in other world. |
| C712.1 | Tabu: staying too long in fairyland. (Cf. C713.3.)—*R. M. Meyer Zs. f. Vksk. XXI 1ff. |
| C713 | Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives. |
| C713.1 | Tabu: merman's wife not to stay till church benediction. English: Child I 366. |
| C713.2 | Tabu: wife of supernatural husband seeing old home. Usually a part of the "Star-Husband" tale of the North American Indians: Thompson Tales 332 n. 197. |
| C713.3 | Tabu: wife of merman staying too long at home (on visit). (Cf. C712.1.)—Norwegian: Child I 364. |
| C713.3.1 | Tabu: beast-husband staying too long at home: becomes sick. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C713.4 | Golden apple thrown to remind merman's wife not to forget to return to him. Child I 364f. |
| C714 | Tabus concerning requests made in otherworld. |
| C714.1 | Only one present to be asked for at home of spirit son-in-law. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C715 | Tabu: speaking in otherworld. (Cf. C400.) |
| C715.1 | Tabu: speaking in fairyland. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C715.2 | Tabu: making noise on way to other world. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 154. |
| C716 | Tabu: removing hats while in otherworld. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C720 | Tabu: attending toilet needs. |
| C721 | Tabu: bathing. (Cf. C711.)—Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C721.1 | Tabu: bathing during certain time. *Types 361, 475; BP II 423, 427 (Gr. Nos. 100, 101).—Irish myth: Cross. |
| C721.2 | Tabu: bathing in certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C721.2.1 | Tabu: bathing in clear stream. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 281. |
| C721.3 | Tabu: bathing without straining stream afterwards. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C722 | Tabu: cutting hair. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C722.0.1 | Tabu: shaving. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C722.1 | Tabu: cutting hair during certain time. *Fb "hеr" I 771b. |
| C723 | Tabu: combing hair. |
| C723.1 | Tabu: combing hair during certain time. *Types 361, 475; BP II 423, 427 (Gr. Nos. 100, 101). |
| C725 | Tabu: attending call of nature at certain time. Africa (Benga): Nassau 132 No. 14. |
| C725.1 | Tabu: use of water after attending call of nature. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C726 | Tabu: trimming fingernails. Jewish: Neuman; German: Grimm Nos. 100, 101. |
| C726.1 | Tabu: throwing away nail trimmings. Jewish: Neuman; Tahiti: Henry 143. |
| C730 | Tabu: resting. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C731 | Tabu: resting on journey. India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 51. |
| C735 | Tabu: sleeping. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 100. |
| C735.1 | Tabu: sleeping during certain time. *Type 400; BP II 318 ff.; Irish myth: Cross.—N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Parsons JAFL XXIX 393; (Ojibwa): Jones-Michelson PAES VII (2) 231 No. 20, (Bella Coola): Boas JE I 58.—Africa (Congo): Weeks 217 No. 12. |
| C735.1.0.1 | Tabu: sleeping in certain position during certain time. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C735.1.1 | Tabu: bearded man sleeping at sunrise. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C735.1.2 | Tabu: sleeping before task is finished. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 3/1174). |
| C735.2 | Tabu: sleeping in certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C735.2.1 | Tabu: sleeping in other world. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 281, (Congo): Weeks 217 No. 22. |
| C735.2.1.1 | Tabu: sleeping before lapse of seven days in cloudland. Africa (Congo): Weeks 217. |
| C735.2.2 | Tabu: sleeping in empty hut. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 86. |
| C735.2.3 | Tabu: king (hero) sleeping after sunrise at capital. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C735.2.4 | Tabu: sleeping in house lighted after sunset. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C735.2.5 | Tabu: sleeping in cemetery. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| C735.2.6 | Tabu: sleeping on the path of ghosts. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| C735.2.7 | Tabu: sleeping on feather bed. Canadian: Gautier. |
| C735.2.8 | Tabu: sleeping two nights in the same place until certain result is attained. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C735.2.9 | Tabu: to rest sitting or lying until answer to certain question is learned. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C735.2.10 | Tabu: sleeping at one's own home. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C740 | Tabu: doing deed of mercy or courtesy. |
| C741 | Tabu: relieving souls in hell. Boy who tends kettles in hell not allowed to raise covers to relieve poor souls.—Köhler-Bolte I 138, *320. |
| C742 | Tabu: striking monster twice. Though monster begs that hero strike him again, hero refuses. Monster would otherwise revive.—*Chauvin VII 69 No. 348 n. 2; *Wesselski Theorie 143 and n.; *Köhler-Bolte I 469ff.; *Krappe Révue d'Ethnographie et des Traditions Populaires (1925) 432ff.; **Wesselski Erlesenes 18ff.; *BP IV 395. |
| C742.1 | Man must be killed with first blow: others will not harm him. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C743 | Tabu: putting house in order for one man. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C744 | Tabu: accepting an invitation. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C745 | Tabu: entertaining strangers. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C745.1 | Tabu: heeding pleas of old woman for food and warmth. (Old woman is transformed demon.)—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C746 | Tabu: watching a game without helping the losing player. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C747 | Tabu: not to allow any other creature on raft. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C750 | Time tabus. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C751 | Tabu: doing thing at certain time. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C751.1 | Tabu: lighting fire at certain time. *Chauvin VII 116 No. 385; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C751.1.1 | Tabu: lighting fire before king lights one. (Cf. C756.)—Irish myth: Cross. |
| C751.2 | Tabu: sleeping with certain wife on Midsummer's Eve. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C751.3 | Tabu: convening certain hunt at certain time. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C751.4 | Tabu: going on water Monday after May Day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C751.5 | Tabu: making treaty at certain time. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C751.6 | Tabu: leaving capital every ninth night. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C751.7 | Tabu: doing thing at sunrise. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C751.7.1 | Tabu: being in certain place at sunrise. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C751.8 | Tabu: carrying food at night. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 144. |
| C752 | Tabu: doing thing after certain time. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C752.1 | Tabu: doing thing after sunset (nightfall). Irish myth: Cross. |
| C752.1.1 | Tabu: bringing arms to capital after sunset. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C752.1.2 | Tabu: crossing certain plain after sunset. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C752.1.3 | Tabu: single person entering one's house after sunset. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C752.1.4 | Tabu: allowing person to come to feast after sunset. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C752.1.5 | Tabu: casting in graveyard after sunset. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C752.1.6 | Tabu: using magic power after nightfall. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/116). |
| C752.2 | Tabu: doing certain thing after sunrise. |
| C752.2.1 | Tabu: supernatural creatures being abroad after sunrise. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 333. |
| C752.2.2 | Conjurer must leave before sunrise. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 173. |
| C755 | Tabu: doing thing during certain time. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C755.1 | Tabu: leaving house within certain time. N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 463 No. 99; Samoa: Henry 346. |
| C755.2 | Telling tales except at certain time of year (or day). De Vries Het Sprookje 49.—Dakota: Wallis JAFL XXXVI 56f. |
| C755.3 | Tabu: coming to Ireland in time of peace. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C755.4 | Tabu: going to certain place in March. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C755.5 | Tabu: sitting on certain sepulchral mounds in autumn. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C755.6 | Tabu: hunting in certain season. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 97, III 187. |
| C755.6.1 | Tabu: hunting in hottest season. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C755.7 | Tabu: landing on certain island during forbidden period. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 508, 511. |
| C755.8 | Tabu: going out at night by oneself. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C756 | Tabu: doing thing before certain time. |
| C756.0.1 | Tabu: ringing bell before certain time. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 242 No. 188. |
| C756.1 | Tabu: going home before dog precedes. Fb "hund" I 678b. |
| C756.2 | Tabu: letting sun shine on girl before she is thirty years old. Fb "sol" III 458a. |
| C756.3 | Tabu: going home before adventure is completed. South African: Bourhill and Drake Fairy Tales from South Africa 237ff. No. 20. |
| C756.4 | Tabu: entering chariot less than three weeks after having eaten horseflesh. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C757 | Tabu: doing thing too soon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C757.1 | Tabu: destroying animal skin of enchanted person too soon. *Type 425; Tegethoff Amor und Psyche 32ff.—Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C757.2 | Tabu: telling adventure in otherworld too soon. India: *Thompson-Balys; Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 99. |
| C758 | Tabu: doing thing too hastily. |
| C758.1 | Monster born because of hasty (inconsiderate) wish of parents. **Tegethoff 24; *Types 425, 430, 433B, 441; BP II 235ff, *483, III 534; Wesselski Mönchslatein 15 No. 11; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C761 | Tabu: doing thing too long. |
| C761.1 | Tabu: remaining on journey too long. English: Wells 66 (Ywain and Gawain).—Chinese: Graham. |
| C761.2 | Tabu: staying too long at home. *Type 425; Tegethoff Amor und Psyche 34ff. |
| C761.3 | Tabu: staying too long at ball. Must leave before certain hour.—*Type 510AB; *Cox Cinderella passim; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| C761.4 | Tabu: staying too long in certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C761.4.1 | Tabu: staying two nights in one place until certain event is brought to pass. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C761.4.2 | Tabu: staying too long in meadow of otherworld. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C761.4.3 | Tabu: angel to remain on earth more than one week. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C762 | Tabu: doing thing too often. |
| C762.1 | Tabu: using magic power too often. N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 299 n. 93; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 461. |
| C762.2 | Tabu: too much weeping for dead. Persian: Carnoy 345. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 73, 80, Rasmussen III 166, 180. |
| C762.3 | Tabu: whipping magic horse more than once on journey. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C762.4 | Tabu: taking more than one fruit from certain tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C762.5 | "Take, but only twice." Man to take money from cursed chest only twice. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 36, 130. |
| C766 | Eating after one is satisfied. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 182. |
| C766.1 | Tabu: killing more cattle than one can eat. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| C770 | Tabu: overweening pride. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C770.1 | Overweening pride in good fortune forbidden. Man proud that he and his clan have never known unhappiness or want swallowed up by earth. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| C771 | Tabu: building too large a structure. |
| C771.1 | Tabu: building too high a tower. (Tower of Babel.) Hebrew: Genesis II 3ff.; Frazer Testament I 362ff.; Jewish: *Neuman; Hartland Science 221.—Esthonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 453 f.; India: Thompson-Balys; Indo-Chinese: Scott Indo-Chinese 266f.—Maya: Alexander Lat. Am. 132; Aztec: ibid. 96.—African (Kaffir): Kidd 237 No. 6; (Ashanti): Werner African Myth 124. |
| C771.1.1 | Wicked man constructs tower neither too large nor too high. (Santa Barbara.) Der Heiligen Leben u. Leiden (Leipzig, 1921) 101ff. |
| C771.2 | Tabu: piling up mountains to reach heaven. Greek: Fox 144; *Frazer Ovid II 136. |
| C773 | Tabu: aspiring to too much power. *Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 259 No. 54. |
| C773.1 | Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished. *Type 555; *BP I 138; Grimm No. 19; *DeCock Volkssage 22ff.; *Wesselski Märchen 235; Irish myth: Cross; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *555B; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C773.1.1 | Tabu: asking for too great magic multiplication of coins. *Starck Der Alraun; Taylor JAFL XXXI 561f.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C776 | Tabu: counting possessions. *Fb "tælle" III 923a.—Irish: Beal XXI 337; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C780 | Tabu: buying, selling, etc. |
| C781 | Tabu: buying. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 810. |
| C781.1 | Tabu: buying gallows flesh or living flesh.—*BP I 514. |
| C782 | Tabu: selling. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 810. |
| C782.1 | Tabu: selling used clothing.—Fb "klæder" II 200a. |
| C782.2 | Tabu: selling to witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 843. |
| C783 | Tabu: giving away. |
| C783.1 | Tabu: giving certain money away.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "argent". |
| C783.2 | Tabu: giving away rings. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| C784 | Tabu: lending. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 27. |
| C784.1 | Tabu: lending to witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 644, 652. |
| C785 | Tabu: trying to save provision for another day. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C810 | Tabu: heeding persuasive person or thing. |
| C811 | Tabu: heeding persuasive voices. Tsimshian: Boas RBAE XXXI 188. |
| C811.1 | Tabu: heeding persuasive voice of magic drum. Not to pick up drum that says "take me".—Roberts Type 480, p. 204; Benga: Nassau No. 11. |
| C811.2 | Tabu: heeding magic yam that says not to take it up. Gold Coast: Barker and Sinclair 90 No. 16. |
| C811.3 | Tabu: answering call when asleep. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| C812 | Tabu: pursuing certain animal. Zulu: Callaway 117. |
| C815 | Tabu: listening to mother's counsel. Fb "moder" II 600b. |
| C815.1 | Tabu: listening to princess's counsel. Canadian: Gautier. |
| C820 | Tabu: finding certain secret. |
| C821 | Tabu: finding age of monster. Type 500; *BP I 497. |
| C822 | Tabu: solving sphinx's riddle: sphinx perishes. Greek: Fox 49 (Oedipus). |
| C824 | Tabu: finding name of ghost. BP I 496; Grimm No. 55. |
| C825 | Tabu: studying occult books. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C830 | 1 Unclassified tabus. |
| C832 | Tabu: spinning. Saintyves Contes de Perrault 79ff.—Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3695, Legends No. 378f. |
| C833 | Tabus for journeys. |
| C833.1 | Tabu: crossing river except at source. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 69 No. 3. |
| C833.2 | Tabu: turning aside for anyone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C833.3 | Tabu: turning back after beginning a journey. *Fb "gе" I 525a, "vende" IV 1035b; African: Werner African 172. |
| C833.4 | Tabu: driving horses over ashen yoke. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C833.5 | Tabu: going with dry feet over certain river. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C833.6 | Tabu: traveling beyond spot where feat of skill was performed before duplicating it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C833.7 | Tabu: proceeding after mishap to chariot. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C833.8 | Tabu: going to certain place in speckled garment on speckled steed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C833.9 | Men sent on mission prohibited from fishing and quarreling. Africa (Bushongo): Torday Notes 247. |
| C835 | Tabus concerning fighting. |
| C835.1 | Tabu: refusing combat to anyone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.1.1 | Tabu: bearded man refusing combat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.2 | Tabus concerning weapons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.2.1 | Tabu: failing to make gift to magic lance. The lance kills offender. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.2.2 | Tabu: allowing spear-head to touch stone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.2.3 | Tabu: putting spear-head between teeth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.2.4 | Tabu: slaying woman with spear. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.2.5 | Tabu: reddening weapons without satiety. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.2.6 | Tabu: giving arms in pledge. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.3 | Tabu: going to (leaving) certain place without combat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.4 | Tabu: fighting certain person. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.4.1 | Tabu: fighting with a hag. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C836 | Tabu: disobedience. All lodgers must obey host implicitly.—English Wells 60 (Syre Gowene and the Carle of Carlyle). |
| C837 | Tabu: loosing bridle in selling man transformed to horse. Disenchantment follows.—Type 325; BP II 60ff, *67 (Gr. No. 68).—India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C841 | Tabu: killing certain animals. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.0.1 | Clerics' voyage unsuccessful because they sailed in boats of skin. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C841.0.2 | Tabu: wounding animal; must be killed outright. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C841.0.3 | Tabu: killing animal which takes refuge with one. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.1 | Tabu: killing stork. Bird was once maiden. (Cf. A1715, A1966.)—Dh III 286.—Fb "stork" III 592. |
| C841.2 | Tabu: hunting birds. Supernatural lover (king of birds) tells woman that son must not do so.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| C841.3 | Tabu: burning caterpillars. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.4 | Tabu: hunting a pig. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C841.5 | Tabu: killing a swan. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C841.6 | Tabu: killing golden duck. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| C841.7 | Tabu: killing totem animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C841.8 | Tabu: killing deer. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.8.1 | Tabu: killing antelope. Africa (Fang): Tessman 190f. |
| C841.9 | Tabu: killing certain fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.10 | Tabu: killing albatross. |
| C841.10.1 | Killing albatross causes misfortune to follow killer. England: Baughman. |
| C841.11 | Tabu: killing a cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C842 | Tabu: exposure to sunlight. Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 72 (to Gonzenbach No. 34); Grimm No. 88; Gaster Oldest Stories 169.—African (Basuto): Jacottet 184, 186 No. 27, (Kaffir): Theal 56, (Ibo, Nigeria): Basden 276, (Pangwe): Tessman 367. |
| C842.1 | Tabu: working iron under direct rays of sun. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C843 | Tabu: pointing. Fb "pege" II 800. |
| C843.1 | Tabu: pointing at rainbow. *Fb "regnbue" III 31b. |
| C844 | Tabu: playing flute. *Fb "flöjte" I 326. |
| C845 | Tabus concerning war. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C845.1 | Tabu: bringing head of slain enemy within village walls. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C846 | Tabu: removing landmarks. Alphabet Nos 46, 47.—Norwegian: *Solheim Register 17; Danish: Kristensen Da. Sagn V nos. 1409ff. |
| C847 | Tabu: giving away gifts received from animal. |
| C847.1 | Tabu: giving away gifts received from fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C848 | Tabu: sleeping on bed made of totem-tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C851 | Tabu: wastefulness. |
| C851.1 | Tabu: using food for unworthy purpose. |
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