Motif
tabooed knotted remnant of the harvest
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A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family, within the sub-family Harvest Actions, Taboos, and Responses. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD. / FOOTNOTES; lines 12768-12923 confidence: high
In Russia, an unreaped patch of corn is left and the ears are knotted together; this is called the plaiting of the beard of Volos, is treated as tabooed, and is believed to harm anyone who meddles with it.
The Russian unreaped and knotted patch is called the beard of Volos and is described as tabooed, with danger to anyone who meddles with it.
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