Punishment for cutting off bird's tongue. (Cf. Q451.4, Q552.5.1.)

Motif

Punishment for cutting off bird's tongue. (Cf. Q451.4, Q552.5.1.)

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Unkindness punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q285.1.1

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Finnish-SwedishWessman 19 No. 182
JapaneseIkeda.

Within the index

Filed under Cruelty to animals punished.

1 finer motif beneath it

Man slits tongue of magpie so that it can learn to speak. His fingernails grow out like bird's claws as punishment

Filed beside it

Punishment for breaking bird's nest

Travels with

Tongue cut off as punishment Man who cuts off tongue of swallow has dumb children. (Cf. Q285.1.1.)

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