μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • Missouri FrenchCarrière
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • 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 courtHand 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 messengersArms cut off as punishment for slandering. (Cf. Q263.)
Filed beside it
Hands and feet cut off as punishmentThreat to cut off hand or footStrong girl breaks impudent suitor's right hand and left footHands and feet cut off as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.)Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.)Loss of speech as punishmentTongue cut off as punishmentNose cut off as punishmentEars cut off as punishmentBlinding as punishmentPunishment: thong of leather cut from backPunishment: woman's breasts cut offPunishment: genitalia cut offPiecemeal mutilation as punishmentLips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.)Punishment: head split into many pieces
Travels with
Mutilation: cutting off hands (arms)
Carried in tale types

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