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C519.1. Tabu: harming tree in any way before burning it. India: Thompson-Balys.

C520. Tabu: touching ground. (Cf. C516.) Hartland Science 197. — Irish myth: Cross; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 246; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 303.

C521. Tabu: dismounting from horse. Hartland Science 199; Irish myth: Cross.

F378.1. Tabu: touching ground on return from fairyland.

C521.1. Tabu: dismounting from magic sack. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule.

C522. Tabu: plowing in certain place. Fb "plove" II 849b, "höj" I 741b. — Africa (Kaffir): Theal 30 No. 1, 41 No. 2, (Basuto): Jacottet 100 No. 15, (Zulu): Callaway 99, (Yoruba): Ellis 253 No. 4.

C523. Tabu: digging. (Cf. C522.) — N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 332 n. 197.

C93.3. Tabu: digging in churchyard. F56.1. Sky window from digging or uprooting plant (tree) in upper world.

C523.1. Tabu: digging up certain stones. India: Thompson-Balys.

C523.2. Tabu: digging in fairy ring. England: Baughman.

F261.1. Fairy rings on grass.

C524. Tabu: disembarking from boat on return from other world. Irish myth: Cross.

F378.1. Tabu: touching ground on return from fairyland.

C525. Tabu: picking up card fallen to ground. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "cartes".

C526. Tabu: touching sacred mountain. Jewish: Neuman.

C530. Tabu: touching (miscellaneous).

C531. Tabu: touching with iron. *MacCulloch Childhood 339; Hartland Science 163f.; Fb "jærn" II 61a. — Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 93.

E415.1.1. Ghost unlaid until iron he hid in life is found. F384.3. Iron powerful against fairies. F408.1. Demon occupies lance (sword). Z312.2. Giant ogre can be killed only with iron club he carries.

C531.1. Umbilical cord not to be cut with iron. India: Thompson-Balys.

C150. Tabu connected with childbirth.

C532. Tabu: touching water. Irish myth: Cross.

D877.1. Magic wishing-ring loses power by touching water.

C533. Tabu: touching box. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 203.

C533.1. Tabu: touching magic box. (Cf. D1174.) Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 18, 178, (Vai): Ellis 187 No. 3, (Basuto): Jacottet 220 No. 33.

C535. Tabu: stepping on bread (or otherwise misusing it). *Fb "brød" IV 74a.

C55.1. Tabu: stepping on sacred bread. C851.1. Tabu: wiping children with bread.

C536. Tabu: not to clean houses with cow-dung. India: Thompson-Balys.