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Group No. 47


Letter

C. Tabu

Group No.

C600 – C649

Group name

Unique Prohibitions and Compulsions. The One Forbidden Thing

Description

C600. Unique prohibition. A person is forbidden to do one particular thing; everything else he is free to do. – Celtic: *Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt. II 307. – Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C610. The one forbidden place. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "interdits". – Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: *Neuman; Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 86; Africa (Luba): DeClerq Zs. f. KS. IV 219; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 70, 186; Marquesas: Handy 36; New Hebrides: Codrington 385; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z – G 13/317).
 
C611. Forbidden chamber. Person allowed to enter all chambers of house except one. – Types 311, 312, 313, 314, 480, 502, 516, 710; *BP I 21; *Cox Cinderella 484; Roberts* (Type 480) 174. – *MacCulloch Childhood 306; *Chauvin V 302 No. 117; **Hartland FLJ III 193; Fb "kammer" II 83, "menneske" II 577b; Penzer II 223 n. 1, 2521, VII 21 n. 3, VIII 57 n. 1; Rösch FFC LXXVII 98; Clouston Tales I 198ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 129, 312. – Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chambre"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 23; Missouri French: Carrière; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 30; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Spanish Exempla: Keller. – Seneca: Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 135 No. 21; Tonga: Gifford 189.
 
C614.1. Forbidden direction of travel. Person free to go in any other. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
C617. Forbidden country. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C621. Forbidden tree. Fruit of all trees may be eaten, except one. *Frazer Testament I 45ff.; *Dh I 208ff. – Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 381ff.; Burmese, Indo-Chinese: Scott Indo-Chinese 265, 289. – N. A. Indian (Biloxi): Dorsey and Swanton RBAE XLVII 32; (Quiché): Alexander Lat. Am. 171; S. Am. Indian (Yuracare): ibid. 315.
 
C621.1. Tree of knowledge forbidden. Dh I 212ff. – Jewish: *Neuman.
 
C624. Forbidden barrel. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C631. Tabu: breaking the sabbath. Hebrew: Exodus 20; 8 – 12. – Jewish: *Neuman; Irish myth: Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 17f. Nos. 157 – 170.
 
C631.1. Tabu: journeying on sabbath. Jewish: *Neuman; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
C631.3. Tabu: washing hair on sabbath. Irish myth: Cross; Jewis: Neuman.
 
C631.4. Tabu: lighting or extinguishing lights on sabbath. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C631.5. Tabu: writing on sabbath. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C631.6. Tabu: playing music on sabbath. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C634. Tabu: fasting on holidays. Jewish: *Neuman.

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