C. Tabu
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C634. Tabu: fasting on holidays. Jewish: *Neuman.
C635. Tabu: giving ring at certain time. India: Thompson-Balys.
C636. Tabu: hunting on shortest day in the year. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 341.
C640. Unique prohibition — miscellaneous.
C641. Tabu: making war against certain tribe. Irish myth: Cross.
C856. Tabus concerning war.
C641.1. Tabu: making war against certain tribe on Tuesday. Irish myth: Cross.
C751. Tabu: doing thing at certain time.
C642. Tabu: making peace with certain tribe. Irish myth: Cross.
C643. Tabu: turning left side of chariot toward certain place. Irish myth: Cross.
D1791. Magic power of circumambulation.
C644. The one forbidden thing: returning to home country after marrying fairy. India: Thompson-Balys.
F378. Tabus connected with trip to fairyland.
C650—C699. THE ONE COMPULSORY THING
C650. The one compulsory thing. Unless one does this one thing, misfortune comes. (Sometimes one is under magic compulsion.) — **Reinhard the Survival of Geis in Mediaeval Romance. — Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 177ff., passim, *Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt II 307; Beal XXI 312.
M202.0.1. Bargain or promise to be fulfilled at all hazards.
C650.1. Customs connected with unique compulsion. Irish myth: Cross.
F600. Customs.
C651. The one compulsory question. Percival must ask the meaning of the strange sights he sees; else the Fisher King will not be healed. — Voretzsch Altfranz Lit. 325 (Chretien de Troyes Conte del Graal).
C735.2.9. Tabu: to rest sitting or lying until answer to a certain question is learned. F91.1. Slamming door on exit from mountain otherworld. It (almost) injures the hero because he has failed to bring back the talisman which opened the mountain. F152.2. Slamming bridge to other world. Slams as hero leaves and (almost) injures him. He has failed to do the one compulsory thing. H508. Test: finding answer to certain question. H1388. Quest: answer to certain question. J21.6. "Do not ask questions about extraordinary things." Q85. Reward for asking proper questions.
C652. Compulsion: taking back talisman which opened treasure mountain. Hero takes treasure and forgets the talisman. — *Krappe Balor 109ff.
C655. Only one certain gift must be accepted.
C655.1. Only peacock on the steeple of the king's golden temple can be accepted as dowry. India: Thompson-Balys.
C661. Girl from elfland must eat earthly food in order to remain. *Fb "spise" III 495b.
