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Group No. 19


Letter

A. Mythological Motifs

Group No.

A1500 – A1599

Group name

Origin of customs

Description

A1500. Origin of customs – general. Irish: Beal XXI 324 – 326; Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1511. Origin of time for meals. Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 141 No. 17; Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1535. Origin of secular feasts. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1537. Origin of social etiquette. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1541. Origin of religious feasts and fasts. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
A1541.4. Origin of Sabbath. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1541.5. Origin of passover. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1541.6. Origin of Pentecost. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1541.7. Origin of religious fasts. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1542. Origin of religious dances. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 359.
 
A1544. Origin of religious images (idols). Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 516; Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 261.
 
A1544.0.1. Why Jews do not worship idols. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1545. Origin of sacrifices. Greek: *Grote I 25f., 28; Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 36, 59, 199.
 
A1545.1. Regulations for sacrifices. Hebrew: Leviticus ch. 1 – 7; Greek: *Grote I 25f., 28; Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 64, 70, 198, 397; Tahltan: Teit JAFL XXXII 238.
 
A1545.2. Animal substituted for human sacrifice. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
A1546. Origin of worship. (Cf. V0 – V99.) – Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
A1546.0.2. Origin of prayers. Jewish: *Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 19ff., 69; Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 313.
 
A1546.4. Origin of Jewish worship. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1546.6. Origin of fire worship. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1547. Origin of funeral customs. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
A1548. Origin of tithing. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1549.2. Origin of sundry religious ceremonials – Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1549.4. Origin of penance for sin. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1551. Why women do not woo. Esthonian: FFC XXV 142 No. 18; Jewish: Neuman; S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 54.
 
A1555.1. Origin of wedding ceremony. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
A1555.1.1. Origin of custom of throwing fruits on bridal couple. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1556.4. Origin of jus primae noctis. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1567. Origin of circumcision. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1567.1. Why dust is strewn on wound at circumcision. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1577. Origin of personal names. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Liberian: Bundy JAFL XXXII 422.
 
A1580.2. Laws given directly by deity. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1589.1. Why women are disqualified as witness in court. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1597.1. First men without beards: Cain, Abel. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1598. Origin of customs of hospitality. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A1599.2. Origin of erection of monuments to mark boundaries. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.

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