Hand cut off for broken tabu

Motif

Hand cut off for broken tabu.

Tabu. · Punishment for breaking tabu. · Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C948.6

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Aeneid, Book 10
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 6, Section LXXXIII
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 8, Section 77
North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 80LXXX. THE ENCHANTED HORSE ?*

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

JewishNeuman.

Within the index

Filed under Mutilation as punishment for breaking tabu.

Filed beside it

Mouth expanded because of broken tabu Nose to be cut off as punishment for breaking tabu Tongue of woman who breaks tabu protrudes and entwines itself around a post in the home Man's liver snatched away because of broken tabu Man's lungs cut out because of broken tabu Face chilled because of broken tabu Head shattered for breaking tabu

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