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Group No. 49


Letter

C. Tabu

Group No.

C700 – C829

Group name

Miscellaneous Tabus

Description

C721. Tabu: bathing. (Cf. C711.) – Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
C722. Tabu: cutting hair. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
C722.0.1. Tabu: shaving. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C726. Tabu: trimming fingernails. Jewish: Neuman; German: Grimm Nos. 100, 101.
 
C726.1. Tabu: throwing away nail trimmings. Jewish: Neuman; Tahiti: Henry 143.
 
C735.2.10. Tabu: sleeping at one's own home. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C745. Tabu: entertaining strangers. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C751.1. Tabu: lighting fire at certain time. *Chauvin VII 116 No. 385; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
C755.8. Tabu: going out at night by oneself. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C761.4.3. Tabu: angel to remain on earth more than one week. Jewish: Neuman.
 
C770. Tabu: overweening pride. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
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.
 
C776. Tabu: counting possessions. *Fb "tælle" III 923a. – Irish: Beal XXI 337; Jewish: Neuman.
 
C825. Tabu: studying occult books. Jewish: Neuman.

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