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Motif

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

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q451.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Type 706
  • general *BP I 295
  • general **Däumling Studie über den Typus des Mädchens ohne Hände (München, 1912)
  • general Krappe Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie XLIX 361–69
  • general Latin American: *Knedler Hispanic Review X 314ff.
Within the index

Filed under Mutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.)

7 finer motifs beneath it
Hand cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Hand cut off for contempt of court Hand cut off for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Hand cut off (falls off) as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) 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.)
Filed beside it
Hands and feet cut off as punishment Threat to cut off hand or foot Strong girl breaks impudent suitor's right hand and left foot Hands and feet cut off as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.) Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.) Loss of speech as punishment Tongue cut off as punishment Nose cut off as punishment Ears cut off as punishment Blinding as punishment Punishment: thong of leather cut from back Punishment: woman's breasts cut off Punishment: genitalia cut off Piecemeal mutilation as punishment Lips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.) Punishment: head split into many pieces
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Mutilation: cutting off hands (arms)
Carried in tale types

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