μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Liebrecht 94ff.
  • general DeCock Volkssage 86
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Punishment: castration. (Cf. K2111.3.)
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.)Hands cut off as punishment. (Cf. S161.)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 offPiecemeal mutilation as punishmentLips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.)Punishment: head split into many pieces
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Mutilation: sex organs cut off. (Cf. Q241, Q451.10.)

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