Limbs cut off (drop off) as punishment — Mythoi

Motif

Limbs cut off (drop off) as punishment.

Rewards and punishments. · Kinds of punishment. · Cruel punishments. · view the constellation · filed as Q451.2.0.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.)

Filed beside it

Boring hole through heel as punishment Hamstringing as punishment Youth lamed by man whose daughter he refuses to marry. (Cf. Q245.) Feet cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Foot cut off as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Legs cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.)

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