Hand cut off (falls off) as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.)

Motif

Hand cut off (falls off) as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.)

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q451.1.4

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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.

Irish myth*Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Hands cut off as punishment. (Cf. S161.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Hand cut off as punishment for fornication. (Cf. Q243.)

Filed beside it

Hand cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.)Hand cut off for contempt of court Hand cut off for treachery. (Cf. Q261.)Arms cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)Right hands cut off enemy's messengers Arms cut off as punishment for slandering. (Cf. Q263.)

Travels with

Murder punished. (Cf. Q411.6, Q413.4, Q414.0.12, Q416.0.2, Q417.1, Q421.0.4, Q424.0.1, Q431.1, Q431.9, Q450.1.1, Q451.1.4, Q451.2.3, Q451.4.5, Q451.7.4, Q469.6, Q469.12, Q491.6, Q497, Q511, Q511.1, Q512.0.1, Q520.1, Q545, Q551.3.3, Q551.8.3, Q552.3.0.2, Q556.2, Q556.10, Q558.9, Q582.3.)

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