Lex talionis. One life for one life. Equal number must be given up by each feuding side. (Cf. P535.)

Motif

Lex talionis. One life for one life. Equal number must be given up by each feuding side. (Cf. P535.)

Society. · Government. · Law courts. · view the constellation · filed as P522.1

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Irish mythCross (P548.2)
IndiaThompson-Balys
New GuineaKer 61.

Within the index

Filed under Laws.

1 finer motif beneath it

A nose for a nose

Travels with

Eric fines (imposed for personal injury, etc.). (Cf. P522.1.)

wander