C. Tabu
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C537. Tabu: touching certain animals.
C537.1. Tabu: touching camel after he has retired from work. Cyprus: Hadjioannou Kypriakoi Mythoi (Leukosia, 1948) No. 22.
C537.2. Tabu: touching hairless dog. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 343.
C537.3. Tabu: touching horse or moving dead cat or dog. India: Thompson-Balys.
C541. Tabu: contact with the dead. Jewish: *Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 341, 452, Rasmussen III 104.
C319.2. Tabu: seeing dead man not killed by weapons.
C541.1. Tabu: dead body not to be on ship. English-Scottish: Child I 245 n.
C541.2. Head of slain man must not be moved. Fb "hoved" I 655a.
C541.3. Tabu: touching bones of murdered person. India: Thompson-Balys.
C541.4. Tabu: lying on ancestors' bones. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3541.
C541.5. Tabu: taking down corpse of hanged man. India: Thompson-Balys.
C541.6. Tabu: embalming. Jewish: Neuman.
C542. Tabu: touching treasures of other world. *Krappe Balor 125 n. 17. — Icel.: Herrmann Saxo II 589; MacCulloch Eddic 321, *Boberg.
C710. Tabus connected with otherworld Journeys. F0. Otherworld Journeys. F378. Tabus connected with trip to fairyland.
C542.1. Tabu: contact with things on journey to hell. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys.
E391. Dead returns to life and tells of Journey to land of dead. E721.7. Soul leaves body to visit hell. F81. Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades). V522. Sinner reformed after visit to heaven and hell.
C542.2. Tabu: touching fire in other world. S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 45.
C543. Tabu: picking up comb from ground. It belongs to fairy (witch) who will avenge insult. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 22 note. — Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges.
C544. Tabu: crushing eggs.
C544.1. Tabu: crushing lizard's eggs. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 127.
C545. Tabu: touching certain clothes.
C545.1. Tabu: touching old clothes. (Abandoned clothes should be thrown away.) — Tahiti: Henry 143.
C545.2. Tabu: touching clothes of certain person. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 58.
C545.3. Tabu: touching dress. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule.
C546. Tabu: striking certain rock. Samoa: Beckwith Myth 19, notes 10—12.
C549. Tabu: touching (miscellaneous).
C549.1. Tabu: tiger and lion after having killed a man not to touch certain animals: cow, buffalo, pig, deer, wild goat. India: Thompson-Balys.
