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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
C145. Tabu: not to touch certain things during menses. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
C500. Tabu: touching.
C146. Women must wear certain things during menstruation.
C146.1. Menstruating women must wear amulet of leaves when approaching certain valley. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 212.
C150. Tabu connected with childbirth.
C531.1. Unbilical cord not to be cut with iron.
C151. Tabu: man not to be present at childbirth. (Cf. C31.1.4.) — English: Child I 179, 181—3, 245f., 502a; II 98, 106f., 414, 418, 422, 499; IV 250a, 464; V236; Dickson Valentine and Orson 169 n. 20; *Boje 125.
T580. Childbirth.
C152. Tabus during pregnancy. *Frazer Golden Bough I 141 n., IIl 147; *Fb "glød", "grav", "gryn", "hul", "hvid" I 700b, "hår" I 771a, "ild" II lib, "karklud", "kaste" II 103a, "kniv" II 221. — India: Thompson-Balys.
T570. Pregnancy.
C152.1. Tabu: violence to woman during pregnancy. Irish myth: Cross.
C152.2. Tabu: refusing unreasonable demand of pregnant woman. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys.
C871. Tabu: refusing a request. T571. Unreasonable demands of pregnant woman.
C152.3. Eating tabus for pregnant woman.
C200. Tabu: eating — general.
C152.3.1. Pregnant woman not to eat food baked overnight. India: Thompson-Balys.
C152.3.2. Certain foods tabu one (two) months before childbirth. S. Am. Indian (Brazil): Oberg 110.
C153. Tabu: contact with woman at childbirth. Frazer Golden Bough III 147ff., X 20.
C153.1. Tabu: carrying corpse of woman who died in childbirth. Jewish: *Neuman.
C154. Tabus following childbirth.
C154.1. Food tabus following childbirth. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 295, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 312.
C160. Tabu connected with marriage.
C566.4. Tabu: women marrying until hero has chosen their husbands. C751.2. Tabu: sleeping with certain wife on Midsummer's Eve. T131. Marriage restrictions.
C161. Tabus for girl going to her husband. Kaffir: Theal 49.
C162. Tabu: marriage with certain person.
C567. Tabu: eloping with king's daughter.
C162.1. Tabu: marrying queen of certain race. Irish myth: Cross.
C162.1.1. Tabu: fairy girl marrying mortal. India: Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 30 No. 13.
F303. Fairy weds prince.
