Motif
social exile through touch taboo
social_exile_through_touch_taboo
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family, within the sub-family Taboos, Geasa, and Curse-Bound Boundaries. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 6133-6277 confidence: medium
Samiri is told his doom is to say 'Touch me not'; the calf-god will be burned, reduced to ashes, and cast into the sea.
Samiri's life-doom is expressed as the saying 'Touch me not.'
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