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

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

Filed across the traditions

Finnish-Swedish Wessman 19 No. 182
Japanese Ikeda.

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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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

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