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C51.4.3. Tabu: spying on secret help of fairies. Irish myth: Cross.
C311.1.2. Tabu: looking at fairies. F361.3.1. Fairies leave work unfinished when overseen.
C51.5. Tabu: imitating god. Greek: Fox 106 (Salmoneus imitates Zeus's thunder), Grote I 103f.*, 128; German: Grimm No. 147; India: Thompson-Balys.
C51.6. Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 80 n. 3; Jewish: Neuman.
C51.7. Tabu: touching stone image of deity with unwashed hands. India: Thompson-Balys.
C51.8. Tabu: giving away idol. India: Thompson-Balys.
C51.9. Tabu: pointing boat toward island of the gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 67.
C52. Tabu: being in presence of god. Greek: Fox 46 (Semele in presence of Zeus.)
C52.1. Direct communication with god fatal to all except special devotees. India: Thompson-Balys.
C52.2. Tabu: coming suddenly on supernatural creatures. Tupper and Ogle Walter Map 95.
C53. Tabu: refusing credit to god. Type 830. — Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 177.
C53.1. People taught by God to work: claim they learned by own efforts. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3057. (Cf. A1403.)
C53.2. Tabu: arrogance toward deity. Jewish: Neuman.
Q330. Overweening punished.
C54. Tabu: rivaling the gods. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 20 n. 1 (Thamyris), I 31 (Side), Fox 220 (Marsyas), Grote I 103f., 146, 238, Gaster Thespis 261f., 289; India: Thompson-Balys.
C770. Tabu: overweening pride.
C55. Tabu: losing consecrated wafer. Types 613, 671; BP I 322 n. 1.
C940.1. Princess's secret sickness from breaking tabu. D2064.1. Magic sickness because girl has thrown away her consecrated wafer. H1292.4.1. Question (propounded on quest): How can the princess be cured? — Answer: She must recover consecrated wafer which rat has stolen from her first communion. V34.2. Princess sick because toad has swallowed her consecrated wafer.
C55.1. Tabu: stepping on sacred bread. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 188.
C55.2. Tabu: shooting at consecrated wafer. Man's ghost wanders. Type 756C. — Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3320; Legends Nos. 615—623; Livonian: Loorits in FFC LCVI 59 No. 138.
C55.3. Bee-master puts consecrated host into beehive. Has success with his bees. (Cf. B259.4.) — When he dies, his spirit haunts the place. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 624—627.
D1031.1.1. Consecrated bread as magic object. Q222.1. Punishment for desecration of holy things (wafers). V35. The stolen sacrament.
C56. Tabu: unseemly acts while carrying divine image.
